Not too many Kiwis on social media are warming to the new deputy Prime Minister after she fronted up on TVNZ's Breakfast programme this morning over the country's alarming child poverty rates.

It was Paula Bennett's chance to shine some light on how the government was considering the report, and monitoring child poverty throughout the country.

Instead, she came to the interview without reading and analysing beforehand any of the information handed down today in the Child Poverty Monitor 2016 report.

Ms Bennett's interview did not go unnoticed by New Zealanders on Facebook.

More than 140 comments were written on a 1 NEWS Facebook post about Ms Bennett's interview - most saying they felt she wasn't fit for the position.

Rachael Bowen wrote, "Seriously, Paula Bennett".

"I am very supportive of women in politics and with positions such as hers, however, they could not have selected a worse candidate for this position."

Glenys Young wrote that "National had signed their death warrant".

Carol Long however agreed with a point that Ms Bennett made on Breakfast this morning.

"It's more complex than throwing more money at the families," Ms Long wrote.

"Finding out the true reasons for poverty (in individual cases) makes more sense then work from there.

"People should benefit from being educated on how to cope. There is help out there."

Some Facebook users criticised Ms Bennett for "skating around the issue" in the interview.

Stacy Brown wrote, "as usual she skates around the issue, she has been a pretty bad housing minister no wonder she wanted to jump ship".

The 1 NEWS post has so far garnered nearly 200 comments and been shared more than 70 times.

Ms Bennett was grilled on alarming figures, which show that 90,000 Kiwi kids were living in severe poverty.

Child Poverty Monitor 2016, released by the commissioner's office, also shows that 295,000 children (28 per cent) are in low-income homes.

When asked if she accepted the figures from the report, Ms Bennett said she hadn't read the report yet.

"I've only seen the headlines... I want to look at that extensively."