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# Faces of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/faces-of-the-day-93/
- Published: 2022-02-02T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-01T23:39:17.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12

A lovely bit of ‘kindness’ for the elderly. If you are illegally locked out of New Zealand by the government, they will cancel your pension. If they have prevented you from being able to return home for more than 26 weeks they will send you a bill. Ardern’s government not only locks the elderly out of the country, but it robs them too.

> Pensioners stuck in Australia face the prospect of a **$16,000 bill** from the Ministry of Social Development.  
>  
> \[…\] The December 6 letter from the Ministry of Social Development to the Bay of Plenty’s Maureen and Rob Wardle, in their 80s, hit like a bombshell.  
>  
> “Our New Zealand super was stopped on November 9,” a worried Maureen Wardle told the Herald today, explaining the couple’s financial and emotional distress.  
>  
> But the bigger blow was the ministry’s pre-Christmas demand that the Wardles repay all the money they received from New Zealand while they were in Australia.  
>  
> \[…\] Rob Wardle now owes $7676.33 and Maureen Wardle $8533.17, bringing the total to $16,209.50.  
>  
> For the last three months, the couple has received **no income** from MSD and **no support** is provided by the Australian Government to help people trapped in this twilight zone-like territory.  
>  
> NZ Herald

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