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NGOs to Government: Income support rates must go up before Christmas
Beneficiary Advisory Service (BAS) has joined a super group of unions, children’s organisations, service providers and church groups calling on the government to raise benefit rates before Christmas. The NGOs have signed an open letter addressed to PM Jacinda Ardern,...

Welfare Sanctions: a form of institutional stigma
The Beneficiary Advisory Service (BAS) has long been trying to challenge the narrative around welfare receipt. This persistent narrative maintains that beneficiaries are somehow lesser individuals simply because they need the support of the state for a period of time....
BAS Newsletter – Mar/Apr 2020
Click this link to read our latest newsletter: Newsletter March-April 2020