Dusk Chorus: 'Cost of Living' payments hammered
Auditor General accused Govt of prioritising speed over accuracy with widespread payment and says unacceptable that IRD doesn't know how many overseas got it sent it wrongly
TLDR: It turns out helicopter payments are hard when you don’t have a helicopter, let alone have one you’ve flown before. The Auditor General accused the Government of doing a bad job distributing the first cost of living payment of $116. So the Government is making tweaks for the second one due next week. The Opposition was cock-a-hoop.
Elsewhere, Britain is set to label China as threatening as Russia, America’s ships sailed through the contested Taiwan Strait for the first time since Nancy Pelosi angered Beijing by visiting Taiwan. And in case you’re too relaxed, Ukraine is handing out iodine tablets to those living near the Zaporizhzhia1
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