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KiwiSaver changes to encourage savings

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets “Budget 2025 improves KiwiSaver to encourage Kiwis to save more for their first home and retirement, while making the scheme more fiscally...

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Investment Boost: Tax Incentive to Lift Growth

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets “Budget 2025 launches Investment Boost, a major new tax incentive to encourage businesses to invest, grow the economy, and lift wages,” Finance...

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12-month prescriptions put money in patients’ pockets

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets New Zealanders will soon be able to receive 12-month prescriptions for their medicines, delivering savings to patients on long-term medications, Health Minister...

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A responsible Budget to secure NZ’s future

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Budget 2025 secures New Zealand’s economic and fiscal recovery and advances reforms to make New Zealanders better off in future.  “In recent...

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Backing for food banks extended

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government will back community-based food banks for a further year as New Zealand recovers from a cost-of-living crisis, Minister for Social Development...

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Increased support for families

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Budget 2025 changes Working for Families to better target help to low and middle-income families with children. About 142,000 families will receive...

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Record investment in health delivery

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government is again delivering record investment in healthcare, providing New Zealanders with better health services and ensuring hospitals and healthcare facilities...

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Parents to step up for unemployed teenagers

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Parents rather than the state will be responsible for unemployed 18- and 19-year-olds who cannot support themselves under planned benefit changes announced...

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Helping older people get the right care

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets New funding will give older people greater access to aged residential care and longer care outside of hospitals, Associate Health Minister Casey...

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$200m set aside for Crown stake in new gas fields

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The coalition Government is taking action on New Zealand’s declining natural gas reserves and has set aside a tagged contingency of $200...

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More staff, better prisons to keep public safe

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets New investment in prison capacity and frontline staff will help reduce reoffending and keep the public safe, Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell says. ...

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Supporting school choice

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Diversity and choice in New Zealand’s schooling system will be supported by increasing funding for independent (private) school subsidies, Associate Education Minister...

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Billion-dollar investment in hospitals

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets Nelson and other communities will benefit from a billion-dollar upgrade and expansion of hospitals across the country, Health Minister Simeon Brown says.“Budget 2025...

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Tackling New Zealand’s rising tax debt

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government will boost its investment in chasing tax evaders, Revenue Minister Simon Watts says.  “Hard-working Kiwis who pay their taxes are being...

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Improving care for disabled New Zealanders

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets More than 7,000 disabled New Zealanders will receive improved residential care, thanks to a $240 million four-year funding boost in today’s Budget.  This...

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More Police funding to improve public safety

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government is investing more in core police services to continue its good progress in restoring law and order and improving the safety...

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Funding boost for post-Cyclone local road recovery

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets North Island communities still building back after the 2023 weather events will get extra funding to complete recovery works on local roads,...

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Tertiary study subsidy boost in priority subjects

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government is backing the tertiary system with new investment in study that delivers the greatest value for students and for New...

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Growth-promoting science and innovation backed

· May 22, 2025

Source: NZ Music Month takes to the streets The Government is backing modern, commercially-focused science and innovation to fully realise the contribution it can make to economic growth and the...

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New timeline for property revaluation

· May 22, 2025

Source: Secondary teachers question rationale for changes to relationship education guidelines Auckland Council is in the process of delivering its three-yearly property revaluations, ahead of the 2025/2026 rating year. Ensuring...