Interconnected socio-economic rights Understanding the human rights impacts of poverty requires us to recognise that all human rights are interconnected, interrelated, and interdependent. For example, the realisation of the right to decent work and fair working conditions both relies on and affects the realisation of the rights to health, housing, education, food and other rights, and viceversa. The enjoyment of the right to just and favourable conditions of work is a prerequisite for, and result of, the enjoyment of other Covenant rights, for example, the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, by avoiding occupational accidents and disease, and an adequate standard of living through decent remuneration.25 The NZWRI Research does not provide us with a sufficient basis to undertake a full human rights analysis of all the rights affected by poverty in working households. However, it does give us the ability to highlight some issues of relevance and areas for future work. unsurprisingly are worse off. Reduced access to the right to social security leads to higher prevalence of poverty in working households. We can see the marked effect that welfare policies have upon poverty in working households when we look at the difference between the in-work poverty rate excluding or including income from Working for Families tax credits and the Accommodation Supplement: applying a poverty threshold of 60 percent of the median equivalised income, in-work poverty increases from 7.0 percent to 9.2 percent when these two benefits are excluded as income sources. It is further evident from the NZWRI Research that these benefits have a re-distributional effect across household types, as the two benefits make a sizeable impact on the prevalence of in-work poverty for single-parent households. The data shows us that access to the right to social security provides an additional buffer between those working and the poverty line, thus alleviating the incidence of poverty among working households. Social security compensates for the lack of workrelated income and complements labour rights.29 Increasing the enjoyment of the right to social security can alleviate poverty, including for those in work. The right to adequate housing The right to social security The right to social security26 guarantees human dignity for people when circumstances deprive them of the capacity to fully realise their economic, social and cultural rights.27 Social security, and its interface with the tax system, redistributes resources and thus plays an essential role in reducing and alleviating poverty and enabling social inclusion.28 Social transfers can alleviate the effects of low income from wages, diversify the non-employment income sources for a household, and reduce the overall poverty rate. In Aotearoa New Zealand we see that without access to the right to social security, the rate of poverty in working households is higher. As we see from the NZWRI Research, without government support through the Working for Families tax credit or the Accommodation Supplement, many families In Aotearoa New Zealand, the inability to obtain decent, affordable housing is one of the major barriers to an adequate standard of living and one of the main human rights impacts of poverty in working households. When assessing enjoyment of the right to housing in Aotearoa New Zealand by those households experiencing poverty, we can see a number of clear links, including the link between poverty and affordability and security of tenure, which are two of the main elements affecting the right to adequate housing.30 In relation to affordability, housing represents the most significant single budget item for many Aotearoa New Zealand households, and a disproportionate amount of the budget for households experiencing poverty, who spend half their income on housing. Based on the definition of poverty used in the NZWRI Research, working He Urupare Tika Tangata mō te Pōharatanga ō ngā Whānau Whaimahi 13