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How new financial year rules will hit your pay, benefits and household costs

The financial year is coming to an end.

It means we’ll see a whole bunch of policies and adjustments from April 1.

Everything from crayfish catch limits and Pharmac funding to changes to the Living and Minimum wages.

Super annuitants, working families, students and beneficiaries are among those who will receive additional support.

On the law-and-order front, the government’s crackdown on drug drivers is set to ramp up.

And power bills are expected to increase, after the Commerce Commission agreed to let local lines companies, and Transport, charge households and businesses more a…

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