“Though your disability and other costs have remained the same or increased you cannot continue to receive T.A.S......you have had three reviews....that is all we can do”.

Ministry policy and legislation is:

“Where the client may not be able to improve their financial circumstances. In these cases a client may still qualify for Temporary Additional Support.”

Special Benefit and Temporary Additional Support are, to all intents and purposes, the same benefit. Both are administered under s. 61G of the Social Security Act 1964

The main drawback is that you are required to re apply for Temporary Additional Support every three months. This is to wear you down. You know the feeling - “O no! not again”.

The reapplication process, along with your case manager's misleading statements and lies, the Ministry of Social Services hope you will desist from pursuing your lawful entitlements. They want you to succumb to this ideal as it will ensure that you are kept under their thumb of intimidation, and under the curse of poverty for the remainder of your life.

The meagre benefit barely meets your essential payments such as rent or mortgage, telephone, power, or hire purchase payments.

You will notice that by the time the gluttonous Corporations and Banks are paid, you and your family have nothing left to purchase food and other essentials like toiletries, cleaning gear, bedding, clothing, and not forgetting those other 101 essential items needed to run a home free of worry.

And let's not forget your car's maintenance and running costs. Including your transport disability costs of 78cents a kilometer. see: Elderly deceived

You are expected to beg , borrow, steal and bludge your way through life until you die.

It does not take a rocket scientists to understand that the humiliation of being turned away from a government agency which has the power to assist but misleads New Zealanders in order to deny that assistance; and the shame of being unable to provide adequate care for their families, results in much discontentment and unhappiness.

Our jails are full, hospital waiting lists are disgustingly high, and our babies are bashed and murdered almost daily. In no small measure blame can be fairly laid at the feet of Work and income staff and their fat cat bosses.

For it is these ones who ensure that essential payments such as rent or mortgage, telephone, power, and hire purchase payments are paid first even if it means having to pay for these services out of your Standard Costs.

Standard Costs are those costs which the Ministry of Social Services considers as essential weekly living expenses such as food and other items needed on a weekly basis which are usually included in your grocery purchases. Do not confuse these items with actual food, as your case manager wants to show that you spend more on food than you really do.

For instance your case manager may ask. “How much do you spend on groceries a week”, if you say $100 she will put down “Mary says she spends $100 a week on food”. Do you eat soap powder, or does your child eat the pencils you bought for her.? See: Work and Income - part one