{"id":624425,"date":"2026-10-08T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624425\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:16:08","slug":"why-retirees-are-going-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624425\/","title":{"rendered":"Why retirees are going back to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"BUWO227CRFHSTLIDVKTT5LDKHY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">After decades of working, many retirees plan to ride off into the sunset and finally enjoy some free time and leisure activities, with Social Security and savings covering the expenses.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QW32FBZRTZCRZFWQ4Q3SXFHISU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">But for some retirees, the numbers just don\u2019t work out. What may have looked like a comfortable retirement on paper turns out to be something else when the bills start rising, especially against a fixed income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After decades of working, many retirees plan to ride off into the sunset and finally enjoy some free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-624425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624425","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=624425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}