Government raises lid on plan to lift 88,000 families out of poverty

The new Government is estimating its Families Package will lift 88,000 children out of poverty and hand 385,000 families an extra $75 a week in the back pocket. 

But the Opposition has already slammed the policy, the saying the changes could leave some Kiwi families paying more than half of any extra income they get in tax, and branded its child poverty figures as “smoke and mirrors”. 

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