Budget Highlights and Lowlights
- Benefits up $32 to $55 a week
- Student allowances up $25 a week
- $200 million for Pharmac
- Maori Housing to get 1,000 new homes, 700 repaired homes
- $100 billion of borrowing for next five years
- Net crown debt to hit 48% of GDP
- No surplus until at least 2027