Are youa Budget winner or Budget loser? Here's what Bill English's Budget means if you are ...
A retiree
• No increase in pensions SuperGold cardholders get close to $41 million in extra funding over four years • A national bowel cancer screening programme costing $39m over four years. The programme will screen more than 700,000 60 to 74-year-olds over the two years. • Increased funding for DHBs ($1.6b over four years) • Increased money for publically-funded drugs and ambulance services
• No specific measures in the Budget for first-home buyers • $100m to open more Crown land for housing in Auckland
A student
• Tertiary fee increases will be capped at 2 per cent next year and 2018 • $1.6m given to a programme to help the increasing number of engineering students transition into the workforce • $86 million in tuition subsidies given to tertiary providers who offer science, agriculture, veterinary science and undergraduate medicine. • An extra $36 million for sub-degree courses - those most commonly taught at polytechnics • Extra funding for apprentices, free foundation courses, workplace literacy and numeracy • No extra accommodation support for students • No increase in the student allowance
A family
• Extra money to free doctor's visits to under-13s • More than $40m on offer to support children at risk of not achieving • $1.44 billion more in education, including $882.5m for 480 classrooms and nine new schools • A freeze on schools' operational funding as $43m is instead targeted at 150,000 at-risk children
A frequent healthcare user
• An extra $2.2 billion will be pumped into health over four years to help cope with an ageing population and record immigration • Increased funding for DHBs ($1.6m over four years) • A national bowel cancer screening programme costing $39m over four years. The programme will screen more than 700,000 60 to 74-year-olds over the two years. • $96 million to provide more elective (non-urgent) surgery • $12 million to expand intensive alcohol and drug support for pregnant women. • $12 million for mental health services. • $124 million for Pharmac to provide access to new medicines. Pharmac will likely fund next generation melanoma drug Opdivo. • An extra $169.2m over four years for disability support
Looking for a job
• $14.4m to fund 5500 more apprenticeships by 2020 • Expanded workplace literacy and numeracy fund
• Society's most vulnerable will receive a $650 million funding boost spanning health, welfare and education services • $200m additional funding to keep rents income-related for state houses • $36m for insulation of homes of low-income people • $258m to provide at least 750 more social housing places in Auckland • $42 million will support 3000 emergency housing places a year
