Family aid plan cuts food parcel demand

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Family aid plan cuts food parcel demand
Demand for food parcels is finally dropping slightly as low-income families gain from the Government's Working for Families package. The Auckland City Mission, the Salvation Army in Manukau and Papakura's Mercy Mission all report handing out fewer food parcels to hungry families last year, and say a further decline is likely this year. For all three agencies, the declines follow a decade of increasing demand, despite falling unemployment. Although more people are in paid work, agencies have reported worsening problems of indebtedness driving families to ask for food handouts. It is good news that demand for food parcels is dropping, it is just a pity that it took Labour being in power for 8 years and a lot of talk about the underclass from John Key before Labour seems to have woken up to the need at the bottom of the heap.