More than 150,000 people have petitioned to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but Act says $12.75 is already too much. Simon Collins investigates.

A man who stole the identities of dead infants to commit benefit fraud gave himself up after 16 years on the run.

New laws to make sole parents look for work after their youngest children turn 6 will be phased in over several years, the Govt says.

The mother of the 12-year-old girl John Key took to Waitangi three years ago says she feels let down by the Prime Minister.

A sickness beneficiary with a taxpayer-subsidised state house was instead living in an upmarket Auckland suburb and driving luxury cars worth $250,000.

An official survey has found that families with children are far more likely to be in hardship than any other New Zealanders.

For some families, the dole is a better option than Working for Families tax credits. Simon Collins investigates what's wrong.

Cliff Robinson has invested a lifetime raising his disabled son and daughter and is fighting the Government to lighten his load.

In the United Kingdom, calls are growing by opposition politicians and the public that the full report of the review of the case of two brothers who savagely attacked a pair of boys in Edlington, South Yorkshire, should be made public.