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.

Angela McCarthy finds a company helping women get back to work.

The Minister of Maori Affairs is warning that people using a 'Maori Traveller's Permit' instead of a driver's licence will be prosecuted.

If some beneficiaries are too dangerous to be dealt with face-to-face, their benefits should be cancelled says Kerre Woodham.

While the number of people on benefits is rising, there are positive signs, says Social Development Minister Paula Bennett.

Derwin Randle has spent two years studying hospitality, tourism and culinary art. But right now he's glad to have a minimum-wage job in a factory.

Skimpy tops and sexy stockings not suitable for work, says consultant.

This has been an especially awful week for Phil Goff.

An unemployed man used by Labour as an example of someone who would benefit from its dole policy owns properties worth hundreds of thousands.

Phil Goff says his call for the dole to be paid to redundant workers, regardless of their partners' incomes, would be a temporary measure for 'low and middle income' New Zealanders.