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NZ's unemployment insurance scheme will be the biggest welfare shakeup in generations – is it justified?

  • Written by: Simon Chapple, Director, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
NZ's unemployment insurance scheme will be the biggest welfare shakeup in generations – is it justified?Finance Minister Grant Robertson with his 2021 Budget, which signalled an unemployment insurance scheme was coming.GettyImages

When Minister of Finance Grant Robertson announced in this year’s budget that his government was developing a social unemployment insurance scheme, people could have been forgiven for seeing this as largely positive.

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