COMMENT: Will the Greens be rewarded or punished for co-leader Metiria Turei's confession.

Green MP Metiria Turei says she will not dob in welfare cheats to authorities.

EDITORIAL: Turei cannot say she had a moral right to commit benefit fraud.

COMMENT: Time to hand out tough sentences to welfare-bludger criminals.

Solo mothers who've undergone major breast surgery are calling for changes in benefits.

COMMENT: Big data on benefits could save taxpayers' money - and do some good too.

The Government has put the cost of a lifetime of social housing at $16.4b

Hone Mihaka opens up about suicide in light of NZ's low ranking for child wellbeing.

COMMENT: The Government hopes 'social investment' will measure its spending by results.

COMMENT: Boomers not the only ones to complain about, writes Brian Rudman.

A $200 a week payment for families with young children is being proposed by Gareth Morgan.

More than 2800 needy children are already being sponsored by the charity Variety's Kiwi Kids scheme, launched in 2013, and a further 600 are on its waiting list.

A second wife in a polygamous may be regarded as a solo parent and entitled to a solo-parent benefit.

Papakura High School has a falling roll, and as far as results go, it's among the worst schools in the country. But there is hope.

Ruthless, reckless and surging rage: a mother details the struggle of looking after the severely autistic daughter she later killed.

Helping someone in an emergency? Yes. Helping someone for a lifetime? No. Enough is enough.

An Auckland beneficiary is protesting this morning as she fights eviction from the two-bedroom state home she's lived in for 21 years.

How likely young New Zealanders are to be "on track" at age 21 has been mapped using a powerful government database.

A 71-year-old man on the waiting list for a state house said he was told to "live in his car and then call back" to speed up the process of getting a home.

New Zealand has the fourth-highest rate of child deaths from assault in the OECD. Simon Collins visited three communities to look for the root causes of that bad child abuse record. First: Flaxmere.

A survey which revealed access problems to the child disability allowance has raised more questions than answers.

The Labour Party is by no means alone in worrying what to do about 74,000 young people who are in neither employment, education or training.

Despite feeding her family on a tight budget, this Porirua mum is changing lives with her food parcel initiative.

Minister Anne Tolley says the UN Rights of the Child committee in Geneva asked her 250 questions but only one on child poverty.

COMMENT: To reduce inequality, politicians need to ensure Maori views are not frozen out by mono-cultural agencies and majority decisions.

COMMENT: Set up support networks and make sure that local addiction recovery services are available. If not, agitate for them.

COMMENT: The challenge is how do we improve employment opportunities for our intellectually disabled people?

Vulnerable children will be placed in foster care more quickly, and their foster parents will get more flexible pay, under law changes outlined today.

COMMENT: The rewrite of the Social Security Act is a good time to abolish the sanctions altogether.

A brief liaison with a man she didn't know cost a young Auckland woman $28 a week off her benefit for two years.