Larry Williams Drive

This is the “block of cheese and cup of coffee” budget. Because that’s all you’re going to be able to buy with that extra $27 a week. One block of $21 tasty cheese and one $6 cup of coffee. And that’s only if you earn below $70K a year. As I said earlier, I think the first reaction low-income Kiwis will have is to be pleasantly surprised but that will probably wear off pretty quickly. Once you realise how little you’re getting and that you’re only getting it for three months. You’ll get it for August, September and October and then you’ll lose it just before Christmas when you probably need it the most. There are a bunch of things I don’t understand about the decision to helicopter this amount of money into the accounts of only some Kiwis and for only three months. First of all, why so little? It’s just big enough to be better than a poke in the eye, but just small enough to feel miserly. Second, why exclude pensioners? Pensioners buy groceries too. They’ll be running out of money too. Telling them to use the