Paula Bennett has set out her latest proposals for changes to welfare benefits for consultation. These will mean changes to sickness and invalids benefits, the way disability allowance is paid, and the DPB CSI.
Auckland Disability Law invites you, your whanau and friends to a Community Hui to discuss the proposed changes and to learn how to make a submission.
The hui will look at these changes from a Rights based framework and will incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the Government’s obligation under this convention.
Come and share your views and ideas.
Please let ADL know if you are coming and if you need and NZSL interpreter. Numbers limited
Full information about the select committee process can be found here: http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Legislation/Bills/5/2/a/00DBHOH_BILL11634_1-Social-Security-Benefit-Categories-and-Work-Focus.htm
Submissions are due Thursday 1 November.
Thursday 25 October 2012,
9.30am – 12pm (tea and coffee from 9-00am)
Mangere Community Law Centre, off Waddon Place, Mangere
… I will practice using small moments of self-care to create positive experiences in my day. Self-care is the act of caring for myself by meeting my basic needs for food and water, movement, fresh air, sunlight, stillness, and physical care. I will spend some time every morning and evening focused on a self-care activity from one of these categories. I will start out by making a list of activities I like for each kind of self-care first and then use my diary to plan which activities I will do each morning and night. I might even add to these categories if I want to, I could add ‘ Connection’ or ‘ Noise’ or any other kind of activity that I feel fits with my idea of what my ‘ basic needs’ are.
