{"id":22291,"date":"2020-09-01T14:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/01\/new-zealand-lockdown-led-to-biggest-spike-in-welfare-claims-in-modern-history"},"modified":"2020-09-01T14:01:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:01:19","slug":"new-zealand-lockdown-led-to-biggest-spike-in-welfare-claims-in-modern-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22291","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand lockdown led to biggest spike in welfare claims in modern history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for social welfare \u2018unprecedented\u2019 in April as coronavirus lockdown claimed tens of thousands of jobs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The number of people claiming benefits grew by nearly 12% during New Zealand\u2019s first month of lockdown, a new report has found, representing a demand for social welfare \u201cunprecedented in modern history\u201d, the government says.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis by the Ministry of Social Development showed the jump in April was the biggest monthly rise in 24 years, \u201cnoting that this period includes the global financial crisis and the Asian crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/01\/new-zealand-lockdown-led-to-biggest-spike-in-welfare-claims-in-modern-history\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for social welfare \u2018unprecedented\u2019 in April as coronavirus lockdown claimed tens of thousands of jobsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe number of people claiming benefits grew by nearly 12% during New Zealand\u2019s first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,1654,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-unemployment","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22292,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291\/revisions\/22292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}