Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on FamilyBoost failure, admits assumptions based on wrong information

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blames “challenges and assumptions” on the failure of the FamilyBoost payment scheme, which only reached 1.2% of the families the Government said were eligible. Luxon told Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking the policy was based on incomplete information provided by the Inland Revenue Department, which led to fewer families benefiting from the scheme than originally touted.

He was asked about the “cock-up” of the FamilyBoost scheme after the Government admitted the number of families it said would be eligible for the full $75 a week benefit of its flagship childcare tax policy was wrong. “There was real challenges around obviously, the assumptions and around as to who was going to get what and who was entitled to what,” he said. “But we did get $42 million out to 55,000 people, or families, which was actually really important.



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