This woman and her family were evicted from their state house and ordered to pay $20,500 in costs after the house returned a positive meth test Photo: RNZThe debt of Housing New Zealand tenants wrongly evicted under a flawed meth testing regime will be wiped by the Government. In May last year, the Prime Minister's then chief science adviser Sir Peter Gluckman debunked meth contamination of housing. Photo: RNZSocial Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni said today that wiping the debt was important for the Government. Any money refunded to evicted tenants will not affect their other payments from MSD. "The Government should look at compensation for the private debt incurred as a result of these wrongful evictions.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 17, 2019 02:15 UTC