A universal state pension paid to New Zealanders aged 65 and over.
it would be difficult for any government to sustain New Zealand Superannuation at its current levels
Also called national superannuation
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- Social security benefits and New Zealand Superannuation are taxed at source.
- For those currently in retirement, or getting close to it, you will probably continue to receive New Zealand Superannuation at around today's levels.
- If we applied that figure to the current married couple rate of New Zealand Superannuation, that would equate to $138 per week.
- In practice we lock ourselves when we buy a house and systematically pay off the mortgage, and - sort of - when we expect the government to look after our New Zealand Superannuation.
- By that stage I anticipate that the success of the Fund and its key role in securing the future of an adequate level of New Zealand Superannuation will be sufficiently clear that even my political opponents are likely to refer to it by its proper name.
- I would like to confirm the Green Party's support for the New Zealand Superannuation Amendment Bill.
- Somehow the idea got transmuted into the very different 1998 referendum scheme that would have abolished New Zealand Superannuation, albeit in an incredibly clumsy and confused way.
- One of the criticisms of the Fund that has been made is that, at peak, it will only pay for a small proportion of New Zealand Superannuation.
- I guess it wants the same status as the Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation.
- What is the estimated increase in cost in New Zealand Superannuation over the next 40 years and what measures has the Government taken to prepare for the increase?