Mar 4, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
By Susan St John – By underfunding investment in the young we’ve been able to create budget surpluses to be siphoned into the NZ Super Fund at the current rate of nearly $2.5b a year. This has some serious impacts for a lot of families, writes Susan St...
Jan 20, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
By Jennifer Curtin and Yanshu Huang A research report prepared for the Commission for Financial Capability’s Review of Retirement Income Policy, July 2019. The Public Policy Institute (PPI) was commissioned by the Commission for Financial Capability to deliver with...
Jan 20, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
By Jennifer Curtin and Yanshu Huang (2019) A research report prepared for the Commission for Financial Capability’s Review of Retirement Income Policy, July 2019. This review seeks to answer the following questions: How wide is the Gender Pension Gap in New Zealand?...
Nov 23, 2018 | Policy Commons Blog
By Susan St John – ‘Let’s not mindlessly raise the age, argues Susan St John, but try to solve actual problems ordinary people face’ Recently a prominent New Zealand weekly magazine ran the story “Fresh moves to raise the age of super to 67”. Yet the...
