5 Dec 2018

Meth testing saga: More payouts imminent - Housing NZ

From Morning Report, 7:38 am on 5 December 2018

The Housing Minister says a special team has been set up to try to find the 500 families who were wrongly evicted from their Housing New Zealand home, and who've yet to get in touch with the organisation. The government estimates about 2400 people from 800 tenancies were kicked out of their state houses due to a dodgy meth testing regime. On Monday 55 people were paid an average of almost $8000 each in compensation and got a formal apology. Another 92 have had claims approved and were waiting on an offer to be finalised. Hundreds remain unaccounted for. Andrew Clapham is the head of Housing New Zealand's Meth Assistance Programme. He talks to Susie Ferguson.