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

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

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.

Retirement used to be synonymous with receiving National Superannuation. Not any more.

Retirement has become an outdated concept for 140,000 New Zealanders who have reached 65 and are still clocking in to work.

COMMENT: Heart-breaking stories of families living in cars, garages and overcrowded houses demonstrate that our welfare state is broken, writes Catriona MacLennan.

The Government will pay beneficiaries $3000 to move to cities such as Auckland for work.

Society's most vulnerable will receive a $650 million funding boost spanning health, welfare and education services aimed at helping those at-risk "lead better lives".

"I'm so frustrated," Tony Lepage said. "Our Government is spending $26 million on the flag - $26 million would be swallowed up for the homeless in a week".

An 81-year-old man who has been on welfare for 29 years has had his benefit stopped because Winz has belatedly decided that he didn't meet residency requirements.

COMMENT: Tale of two women: tax credit system leaves those without a partner for support at an unfair disadvantage.

The Labour Party appears to be considering a radical new system of social welfare. It is hard to see any real benefit. It would be a universal setback.

Applicants who are "too picky" will be removed from the waiting list under stricter new rules.

Welfare rolls have risen in Canterbury for the first time since reconstruction work began after the 2011 earthquake.

It's a simple formula: buy a delicious lunch, and a hungry child will get one too.

The latest report tells us 29 per cent of children lived in poverty in 2014, up from 24 per cent the previous year. About 14 per cent live in material hardship, lacking several of the items most New Zealanders would consider essential.

The Children's Commissioner is overwhelmed by the public response to his new social media campaign.

The number of NZ children living in households earning below 60 per cent of the median household income has almost doubled.

An alarming number of Auckland families are being forced to live together in one house so they can afford rent and living expenses.

The Government has a long-term plan of introducing "milestone payments" for non-government providers which improved the social outcomes of their tenants.

One of New Zealand's biggest aged-care providers is believed to have been picked by Auckland Council to take over managing the council's 1412 pensioner flats.

Pensioners, disabled people and low-income families will benefit from a surprise Government decision to fund 508 social housing units in Auckland.