2 May 2023

New recommendations to improve life for single parents

From Morning Report, 7:54 am on 2 May 2023

Improving KiwiSaver rules, tweaking tax rates and even recolouring bus passes are among the recommendations for improving the lives of single parents contained in a new report out today.

The new research looks at how seventy-thousand-plus households are getting by in 2023. Ngati Kahungunu and Project Gender have released their findings under the title of the Mako Mama Mangopare Single Parents Project.

They say it's a groundbreaking report detailing 82 recommendations to address the problems highlighted in the survey, conducted with 3,500 self-selected participants.

Project director Angela Meyer spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.