“NO NEW IDEAS”
(N.Z Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 6. The president of the Federation of Labour (Mr T. E. Skinner, is disappointed that the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Social Security did not present any “new ideas of any magnitude.” His impression after a first reading of the commission’s report was that it was no more than a consolidation of the present system, he said. "The commission did recommend, and rightly, that benefits should be related to average incomes, but the level suggested is low: 80 per cent of the minimum rate payable to an unskilled worker. "This is not a very realistic approach, particularly as the commission admits elsewhere that it is influenced by the thought that a satisfactory social security benefit could mean that men would not wish to go back to work. “It appears that the commission favours the idea that a person on social security should be so badly off that he will do anything to get away from it," Mr Skinner said.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32885, 7 April 1972, Page 10
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