New Zealand to give cash payments to some low income families as global fuel crisis worsens

Policy begins on 1 April and is aimed to ease financial pressure as the price of fuel surges due to conflict in the Middle East Nearly 150,000 New Zealand families will soon receive a weekly cash payment to help them afford petrol, the government has announced, in what is believed to be the world’s first fuel relief package that directly pays citizens since the Iran war began. On Tuesday, prime minister Christopher Luxon and finance minister Nicola Willis announced roughly 143,000 families wi...

By Eva Corlett in Wellington