Effects of freezing student allowance parental income threshold

Alex Harris made this Official Information request to Ministry of Education

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From: Alex Harris

Dear Ministry of Education,

Today the government announced that it was freezing the parental income threshold for student allowances. I would like to request the following information under the Official Information Act 1982:

* any estimate of the effects of this on the number of future student allowance recipients over the next five years
* any estimate of the amount of money expected to be saved by this measure over the next five years
* the primary advice document (cabinet paper, briefing to the Minister etc) relating to the decision to freeze the parental income threshold.

I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Queries about this request will be automatically forwarded to me by the fyi.org.nz website.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Harris

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Kia ora Alex Harris

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Kind regards

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Email [email address] | http://www.minedu.govt.nz

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harris [mailto:[FYI contact email]]
Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2012 5:58 p.m.
To: Communications Mailbox
Subject: Official Information request: Effects of freezing student allowance parental income threshold

Dear Ministry of Education,

Today the government announced that it was freezing the parental
income threshold for student allowances. I would like to request
the following information under the Official Information Act 1982:

* any estimate of the effects of this on the number of future
student allowance recipients over the next five years
* any estimate of the amount of money expected to be saved by this
measure over the next five years
* the primary advice document (cabinet paper, briefing to the
Minister etc) relating to the decision to freeze the parental
income threshold.

I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Queries about
this request will be automatically forwarded to me by the
fyi.org.nz website.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Harris

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Dear Alex,
 
Please find attached response to your OIA request in regards to the
Government’s announcement that the student allowance parental threshold
will not be increased this year.
 
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Rochelle Snell
 

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