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What was the impact of the reform to Temporary Additional Support on the child poverty forecasts published in the 2026 Child Poverty Report? and 1 other question

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Ricardo Menéndez March

List MP · Green Party

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  • 30376

    What was the impact of the reform to Temporary Additional Support on the child poverty forecasts published in the 2026 Child Poverty Report?

  • 30377

    What was the impact of the reforms to social housing rents and the increase to the Accommodation Supplement on the child poverty forecasts published in the 2026 Child Poverty Report?

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Hon Nicola Willis

List MP · National Party · Minister of Finance

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The Treasury did not produce separate final estimates of the child poverty impacts for initiatives including Temporary Additional Support, Accommodation Supplement and Income-related Rent. These policies were assessed as a package because they interact with one another and do not operate independently. As a result, their individual effects cannot be isolated and simply added together as the overall effect of the package may differ from the sum of its individual components. Modelling undertaken for the Child Poverty Report 2026 indicates that the combined package of policies is not expected to have a statistically significant impact on child poverty between 2028 and 2030.