Hon CARMEL SEPULONI (Minister for Social Development and Employment): Kia orana, Mr Speaker. The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) recently released the benefit statistics for the June quarter. They show main benefit numbers fell by 11,193. At the end of the June quarter, there were 354,744 people receiving a main benefit, with 110,790 people receiving a jobseeker work-ready benefit. This is well below forecasts which showed up to 490,000 people could be in receipt of a main benefit due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are also seeing encouraging signs that the numbers of main benefit continues to trend down over the month of July.