Supporting the health and wellbeing of our whānau, our friends, our loved ones, and wider communities is at the heart of everything that we're doing as a Government in response to COVID-19. This is what motivated the Government's commitment to permanently increase benefits by $25 a week, to provide wage subsidies to ensure that workers will continue to receive an income over the coming months, and to invest $500 million in the healthcare system to manage the impacts in our hospitals and on our health services. 