Processing delays and backlogs at the Ministry of Social Development relating to benefit payments, including errors, underpayments, wrongful suspensions, and delayed compensation.
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systemic operational failure during peak demand
More beneficiaries may have had payments wrongly suspended - but ministry won't say how manysystemic failure to detect rising issue trends
Minister's job 'untenable' after review of MSD payment errors – GreensStacked weekly counts; colour by editorial lean. Stuff and The Spinoff lean centre-left, NZ Herald centre-right, others centre.
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