Mike's Minute: We are still feeling the mistakes of Covid
One of the many mistakes made during the Covid days that I could never understand, is how it was that the wage subsidy was handed out with such astonishing abandon, with no real recourse should it not be needed.
The Ministry of Social Development has released a list of the top ten companies that have voluntarily paid back the money they got.
It totals about 25 percent of all the money handed out, around $200 million.
The word 'voluntary' is an important one. No one has to pay it back and in that is the glaring hole in the planning, or lack of it.
The Government, namely Grant Robertson, has…
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