7 Oct 2025

PM suggests teenagers move for work as jobseeker rules changed

From Morning Report, 7:25 am on 7 October 2025

The government has announced 18-and-19-year-olds whose parents earn more than $65,000 a year will be ineligible for jobseeker benefits. Te Taiwhenua O Tamatea family services' Bevan Thompson spoke to Corin Dann.