Stand By:  Breaking Update on the Case of the Masterton MSD 'Gang-Up' on the Lone Disability Beneficiary

On the matter of the lone, unrepresented disability beneficiary shamefully and vindictively targeted by Masterton's Ministry of Social Development senior management, and whose benefit was unceremoniously cut off for speaking up after two years to blatant discrimination, The Customer & The Constituent NZ is happy to update readers as follows:

The Human Rights Commission has stepped in, expediting the matter on account of its urgency and its severity, assigning a mediator as the first step in what, if the discrimination remains unaddressed and the victimisation continues unabated, stands to become a case escalated to higher levels.

Meantime, it's worth again reporting the childish belligerence of the Minister of Social Development (who also happens to be the Minister for Disability Issues!), the Right "Honorable" (!) Louise Upston, who continued, for months, to refuse to even acknowledge any correspondence on the matter . . . despite, as I understand it, repeated prompting from the staff of other Ministers' offices (including the Prime Minister's office) to do so. (NB:  Also see The Customer & The Constituent NZ's second earlier update interview with the individual being targeted.)

Stand by for further updates. In the meantime, this publication is pleased to have played a contributory role in exposing this appalling behaviour, both by the Minister's office and also by the senior management of the Ministry's Masterton operations.