The podcast explores how new financial year policies—including benefit increases, minimum wage adjustments, and rising household costs—impact everyday New Zealanders, highlighting concerns that these changes fail to keep pace with inflation and cost of living pressures.
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Yeah, this is a bit more exciting because this to me is sort of more about the long term economic goals that New Zealand has of essentially getting Kiwis saving more money, having more money at retirement and also having more money, more capital in these New Zealand based funds which can actually be used. used to to do things uh to invest in infrastructure and all that sort of stuff um so yeah like uh i think uh australia's six and six i think is 12 percent um you know up to 13 yeah so they're increasing as well we are currently um you know uh three and three and so this is a move towards four and four so they're they're um saying well um the default rate rises to 3.5 now it's tough time Timing, right? Because it does take that, well, you know, that half a percent out of your pay packet, but you're keeping it. It's going into a fund, a fund which is also, you know, I suppose worryingly going backwards because of the global turmoil. But if you were thinking, the important way to think about that, though, is it's now cheaper to buy shares than it was, you know, a month ago. So actually, you know, the really smart. The smut investors. The smart investors will be looking for bargains right now. And so you have to think long term, but there is that issue that the smart investors probably do have all their cost of living expenses covered so they can afford to think long term. So that's the big dilemma. It's a dilemma on a personal level, on a household level around saving. It's a dilemma on a national level for our country because, you know. Now you could you could also leverage from crisis to crisis and paycheck to paycheck or do you just somehow you've got to break the cycle and force yourself to save more so that you get away from lurching from crisis to crisis and so this is a good step in the right direction and so of course if you you're giving up half a half a percent of pay but you're getting your employer then has to match that so actually you're gaining you know a full percent of your your wage or your salary on top of On top of your KiwiSaver contributions, that's got to be good. I can't do the math right now, but you look at their calculators like on sorted.org and things and over the span of a worker's life, that's huge. That's tens of thousands of dollars extra going to be in your account at the end of your working life.
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