Key points from the Government's 2015 Budget include a boost to benefit payments for families, a deficit and the end of the $1000 KiwiSaver kickstart.
Prime Minister John Key, left, and Finance Minister Bill English head into Parliament to deliver Budget 2015.
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The increase in benefit rates is the first in 43 years outside annual adjustments for inflation.
Finance Minister Bill English said the Government needed to target a narrower range of families to have an impact on those living in hardship.
The Opposition has accused the Government of helping the most vulnerable at the expense of "those just a couple of rungs up the ladder" and doing the "bare minimum" to address child poverty.
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New spending on child poverty
Surplus versus deficit
Ministers Steven Joyce (left), Paula Bennett and Bill English arrive at the lock-up at Banquet Hall, Parliament.
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Savings on KiwiSaver
Child support penalties scrapped
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Labour leader Andrew Little responds to Budget 2015.
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Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei speaking today at Parliament.
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