Post AtKtCv50d1pyeXHP2O by cestfleuve@mastodon.nz
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 (DIR) Post #AtKtCtnFPa2Gf9xhiK by cestfleuve@mastodon.nz
       2025-04-22T02:53:05Z
       
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       hey women's rights crusaders look forward to your campaign to individualise benefits to protect women from financial abuse
       
 (DIR) Post #AtKtCv50d1pyeXHP2O by cestfleuve@mastodon.nz
       2025-04-22T02:59:39Z
       
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       if you have a partner with basically any income you can't get a benefit. you're expected to be dependent on them. no money of your own, severely limited ability to escape an abusive relationship.changing it so your ability to qualify for a benefit isn't affected by your partner's income would be a really simple way to protect people from abuse. bit weird that these supposed feminists aren't pushing hard for it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtKtUN4jnKWeP1TSpk by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-04-22T03:04:11Z
       
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       @cestfleuve > changing it so your ability to qualify for a benefit isn't affected by your partner's income would be a really simple way to protect people from abuseIRD already looks at people's finances as individuals, separately from anyone they might be in a romantic or sexual relationship with. Maybe the solution is to abolish WINZ and hand over their benefit payment functions to IRD? With the minimal work brokering functions of WINZ separated out and run as a department of MBIE.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtKuHOtVovrSEXbQOW by cestfleuve@mastodon.nz
       2025-04-22T03:12:58Z
       
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       @strypey I agree.whether a UBI, or a simple opt-in bene that gives you a special tax code to claw any excess back—IRD seem the best folks to handle it.Let those good case managers focus on helping those with barriers to work, instead of focusing on fighting the system that's meant to help.