Bill English’s announcement that National will increase the age of retirement will not only hurt Generation X unfairly,
it will also hit manual workers, Maori, and migrants hard.
New New Zealanders will have to live here for twice as long — 20 years — before qualifying for Super. When we add this
policy to others from the Government, like closing the immigration category for parents, National risk creating a legacy
of two different classes of New Zealanders — one that is protected from poverty in old age and one that isn’t.
Read more: https://blog.greens.org.nz/2017/03/09/super-changes-will-hurt-manual-labourers-maori-migrants/