Beneficiaries confess
About 10 people in Christchurch have confessed under a Social Welfare Department amnesty to receiving benefits or concessions they are not entitled to, the department says. “We have not been inundated by people easing their consciences,” said the department’s assistant director in Christchurch, Mr C. R. F. Money. “But then I do
not know that there are that many people who need to ease their consciences.”
Mr Money said that about four persons had surrendered whole benefits. The others were items such as telephone concessions — worth $2.07 a week — and people owning up to working one or two days while receiving a benefit. The four-week amnesty was announced at the begin-
ning of the month by the Minister of Social Welfare, Mr Young. He said that people who gave up benefits they were not entitled to would have no further action taken against them.
Next month, after the amnesty has ended, Social Welfare “field inquiry units” will begin interviewing beneficiaries in their homes to check that they are getting the correct benefits.
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Press, 24 June 1983, Page 21
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