{"id":109155,"date":"2025-08-31T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109155\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:27:11","slug":"retirement-commissioner-warns-superannuation-under-pressure-amid-rising-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109155\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement commissioner warns superannuation under pressure amid rising costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aFJBXxJcOiL\" style=\"display:none\">Wrightson said the statistics were a wake-up call for people who were young and middle-aged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aFJBXxJcOiL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNZ super is predicated on you either having a mortgage-free home or having affordable social housing, and both of those models of course themselves are under considerable stress at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"aFJBXxJcOiL\" style=\"display:none\">She said that policy changes around superannuation such as proposed increases in age eligibility would \u201churt\u201d women and minority groups the most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aFJBXxJcOiL\" style=\"display:none\">That was because those people gather less retirement savings over their lifetime because of the gender pay gap and equity issues, Wrightson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aFJBXxJcOiL\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/\">RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrightson said the statistics were a wake-up call for people who were young and middle-aged. \u201cNZ super is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13652,64,63,99,9761,41262,32445,186,3322,1881,184,185,1655,1793,19430,4215,5792,3209,78127,4208,21942],"class_list":["post-109155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-amid","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-commissioner","tag-cost","tag-costs","tag-finance","tag-living","tag-pensioners","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-pressure","tag-retirement","tag-rising","tag-says","tag-superannuation","tag-taking","tag-toll","tag-under","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}