Unemployment benefit
Sir, — I notice that unemployed 15-year-olds in New Zealand get no benefit. From memory, I believe the Labour Government’s Education Minister introduced this change td the school-leaving age to allow for those not able to cope or receive intensive training to keep up with the majority, to leave school at 15, but back-up was to be provided by more craft and trade courses at, say polytechnics. Could the Minister of Social Welfare say why, when we are in a depression and unemployment is a reality to many school-leavers, there is still no provision for a benefit to be paid from the legal school-leaving age. Surely it. is commonsense that, if a 15-year-old , is unemployed, has no home-caring background or no-one. to absorb the cost of living, the 15-year-oidris at risk to. himself and to society and, just to
survive could become a costly crime statistic.-—Yours, etc. * M.O'NEILL. February 8,198 L
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