Treasury advised against Budget's $350 payout

almost 2 years in Otago Daily Times

Finance Minister Grant Robertson reading Budget 2022 in Parliament yesterday. Photo: Mark Mitchell

Treasury recommended against the Government's $350 cost of living payment for middle-income households, saying it was a "poor mechanism for supporting households with a longer-term problem" - and that it would make inflation worse in the short term.

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