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Jan Logie: Should solo mums give father's name to avoid benefit cut?

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Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Fri, 2 Jun 2017, 9:17AM
Green MP Jan Logie spoke with Mike Hosking. Photo / Mark Mitchell.

Jan Logie: Should solo mums give father's name to avoid benefit cut?

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Fri, 2 Jun 2017, 9:17AM

More problems for our social agencies.

This time it focuses around a young woman who was raped when she was just 13 - she became pregnant as a result.

She was on the benefit but lost a chunk of it because she refused to name her attacker and father of her child.

Work and Income are admitting they were wrong, and so is Social Development Minister Anne Tolley.

But this case raises the question - should solo mums have to declare who the father is for their benefits?

Green MP Jan Logie doesn't think so. She spoke with Mike Hosking.

LISTEN ABOVE AS GREEN MP JAN LOGIE SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING

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