Proactive Release: Benefits increase - Costs and impacts

The following document has been proactively released by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet on behalf of the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, Minister for Child Poverty Reduction:

• Benefit increase: Costs and impacts

Some parts of this information release would not be appropriate to release and, if requested, would be withheld under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). Where this is the case, the relevant section of the Act that would apply has been identified. Where information has been withheld, no public interest has been identified that would outweigh the reasons for withholding it.

Key to redaction code:

• Section 9(2)(a) – to protect the privacy of individuals