MSD Blames Administration Error for Denying Applications for Food Help

Thousands Denied Grants Because Food Is "Not An Essential” Deserve Assistance To Survive

“Poverty is a political choice. Louise Upston & National can’t keep avoiding responsibility for their decisions to wrongfully decline support, & their failure to take action to create jobs & lift people out of poverty,” says Ricardo Menendez ...

MSD told thousands food was ‘not an essential need’

The Ministry of Social Development is in the spotlight again after it told thousands of people that food was ‘not an essential need’ when declining their applications for food grants.

MSD blames administration error for denying applications for food help

The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is again in the spotlight for an administration error, this time over a reason for declining Special Needs Grant applications for help with food.

MSD told thousands food was 'not an essential need'

The Ministry of Social Development declined Special Needs Grant applications on that basis on more than 8000 occasions.