Andrews lied about NZ dole wait period

What a pack of lies. He's been caught with his bloody pants down. The raving welfare slasher wanabe, when he was blustering incessantly about the need to change the welfare system in Australia claimed there was a one month wait for the dole in New Zealand.

There isn't.

The only "wait" is 20 days to get all the shit together to claim, and you get backpaid from the start date anyway. 

In June, he said: "In New Zealand, everybody who is seeking to get welfare payments, the dole equivalent, has a one-month waiting period." 

But research by the independent Parliamentary Library has confirmed no such waiting period exists in New Zealand. 

"We have been unable to find a waiting period that matches the description Minister Andrews has given previously," the library said in response to inquiries by the office of Labor's families spokeswoman Jenny Macklin. 

The library asked the Department of Social Services for an explanation and it responded that there was a 20-day period to complete "pre-benefits activities" in New Zealand, "thereby having the effect of a waiting period for applicants". 

But the library responded: "I would hold that this is not really the same as a waiting period as most people would easily be able to meet these requirements within the 20 days allowed." 

It also found the pre-benefits requirements did not amend start dates and "an eligible recipient may receive back pay for most of this period" anyway. Read more