Over the past few Budgets, we have made significant moves to improve the wellbeing of those receiving benefits: the Families Package, including Best Start, the winter energy payment, plus the $25 per week increase to main benefits as part of the initial COVID-19 response. We also made the critical decision to index main benefits to wages in Budget 2019. Today, we are announcing the biggest increases in main benefit rates for more than a generation. By April next year, we will have moved all main benefit rates to the level recommended by WEAG and, in the cases of families and whānau with children, beyond those rates. We will do this in two tranches: the first on 1 July this year, when all benefits will increase by $20 per week; the second on 1 April next year, where benefits will increase by a range of amounts to meet the levels recommended by WEAG. Student support payments both for allowances and loans will increase by $25 per week from 1 April next year as well.