A universal state benefit paid to parents for the financial support of children.
the Conservatives are offering a family benefit of $50 a week to parents with preschoolers
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Over the tea break I canvassed a few opinions on the family benefit.
It would be a non-income-tested transferable payment to the primary caregiver, similar to the family benefit that my parents relied on when I was growing up.
It simply would not matter which household member received family benefit or family support payments.
The most obvious immediate solution is restoring a decent universal family benefit for parents.
On offer was $600, which could be taken either as a lump sum, a weekly addition to the family benefit, or as a deposit in her NZ Superannuation Scheme account.
When it was announced in 1990 that the family benefit was to be scrapped, an off-the-cuff comment by the Prime Minister seemed to attract rather more attention than the policy change itself.
We know from when the family benefit was around previously that in many cases that was not the case.
To which women up and down the country replied "You don't get the family benefit, your wife does".
The family benefit is an important part of our social history.
A universal family benefit will certainly not achieve that.