The Government's Wellbeing Budget features an image of a woman who moved to Australia because living costs in New Zealand were too much.

Vicky Freeman and her daughter Ruby-Jean - the smiling, happy faces of the Government's much lauded Budget 2019 - were very surprised when they learned they were on the front cover.

"It was a shock and all of this that's come out of it even more shocking," Freeman said.



She told Newshub it was "just hard financially" being a single parent in New Zealand.