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Most families set to get a boost from govt's Families Package

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Mon, 11 Dec 2017, 9:40AM
Jacinda Ardern said gains in a child poverty report, released last week, are promising but there's more work to be done. (Photo \ NZ Herald)

Most families set to get a boost from govt's Families Package

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 11 Dec 2017, 9:40AM

The Prime Minister's gearing up to give families a boost.

Details of Labour's Families Package are set to be announced this week.

Jacinda Ardern said gains in a child poverty report, released last week, are promising but there's more work to be done.

She told Mike Hosking around 70 percent of families will be better off as a result of the package.

"Families package it's the part that we will be delivering to low and middle-income earners through things like working for families [and] winter energy payments."

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