Promises were expected to be kept, such as prioritizing poverty; the national government has failed to deliver and has instead focused on what appear to be tax bribes for next year's elections (CPAG, 2016). This budget included no inflation adjustment for WFF payments for the fourth consecutive year and no consideration for wage growth. Further political disappointment is seen with the housing supplement failing to respond to ever-increasing housing costs, so more money is spent on rent and less on essentials for children and families, as high housing costs they hit low-income families of working age hardest (Wilkinson & Jeram, 2016). CPAG has long believed and noted that “New Zealand's high child poverty rate is not the result of economic necessity, but is due to political neglect and a flawed ideological emphasis on economic incentives” (CPAG, 2011, p .iii). This was recently demonstrated in New Zealand 2016