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Currently income tax in New Zealand is assessed on an individual basis regardless of your marital status, and with no allowance made for and dependent children.

Yet Income Support is jointly assessed.   So if you are the non-employed partner on your household, you can't apply for a benefit in your own right since your partner's income would be taken into account.

Income Support can do so because the Human Rights Act is subordinate to other enactments, but only until 31 Dec 1999.   Something has to change before then, but what?   We must not let the New Zealand Government extend the exemption of the Income Support Act, NZ, to continue to deny us an income in our own right.