Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Leader of the House) on behalf of the Minister for Social Development: I'm advised that the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is planning for a wide range of scenarios to ensure that those who need help in these extraordinary times can get it. Increases of up to 288,000 would be possible under one of Treasury's more severe economic scenarios released on 13 April. That scenario has already been dismissed by the Government, and that is not what MSD is currently planning for.