Then, there are those who are in work and those who are on benefits. Why is it that there are 187,000 people on the jobseeker benefit now, when there are businesses crying out for help? What is the Government doing to get those people back to work? Instead, we have a Government that is in the business of growing benefit dependency. One out of nine working-age Kiwis is now on a benefit. That is not kindness; it is shameful. 