{"id":238010,"date":"2026-01-17T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/238010\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:03:12","slug":"explainer-what-is-the-nsso-why-were-some-tds-overpaid-and-how-much-do-they-owe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/238010\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: What is the NSSO, why were some TDs overpaid and how much do they owe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The services provider has been in the headlines over issues with government pensions\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/044c3594-8a96-4f2b-ba12-10bf50eb36e1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Q. What\u2019s this about lots of ministers hanging onto money they have been overpaid?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A. It\u2019s not quite as simple as that, but it is something of a scandal \u2013 one that is unresolved and has been hanging around now for seven months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The services provider has been in the headlines over issues with government pensions Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,19254,140398,111,139,69,101113,138322,12613,244,245,140397,140396,138323],"class_list":["post-238010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-jack-chambers","tag-james-browne","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-patrick-odonovan","tag-pearse-doherty","tag-pensions","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-peter-burke","tag-senan-molony","tag-sinn-fein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}