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Beneficiaries, pensioners don't have enough money for basics - report
In news from RNZ: Households living on JobSeeker Support or NZ Super alone have to spend more each week than they have coming in to cover
the basics, on average, a new report says.
Kore Hiakai, the Zero Hunger Collective, has issued its latest annual report - Ka Makona - which notes 27 percent of children
are living in food-insecure households.
This year, older people have been added to the household scenarios, modelling weekly income and basic housing, food, transport and utilities
expenses for an older person living alone and an older couple.
Single adults, sole parents with two children and two-parent households with two children were also considered.
Housing costs are based on rents for a single adult living in a shared flat, an older person in a one-room unit and an older couple in a
two-bedroom house. Family households are based on three-bedroom rentals.
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