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NZ Pension Income and Asset Tested...


If you are a Single Pensioner you can earn what you like, not Income and
Asset Tests, but only on the extra medical benefit, Disability allowance.


But if your Wife is below 65 you are both Income and Asset Tested, you can
only earn as much as $80 gross total a week any thing over that is TAXED at
90% in the $, 20% Income Tax and 70% Pension Tax.

If your Wife is under 65 and earns her own full wage then the Pensioner is
not Income and Asset Tested, as she is not included in the Pension..

So this is All Bull that the Labour Gov puts out, that the NZ Pension is not
Income and Asset Tested, it is, as most Wife's will be younger than their
husbands..

Even when I rang the local Gray Power they could not believe it..

In reply to

>
> So this is All Bull that the Labour Gov puts out, that the NZ Pension is not
> Income and Asset Tested, it is, as most Wife's will be younger than their
> husbands..
>
> Even when I rang the local Gray Power they could not believe it..
>
>
>
Gray Power is just a Labour Party front, a bunch of quavering
decrepit old collectivists and parasites, what more would you
expect??

"Redbaiter" <> wrote in message
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> In reply to
>
>>
>> So this is All Bull that the Labour Gov puts out, that the NZ Pension is
>> not
>> Income and Asset Tested, it is, as most Wife's will be younger than
>> their
>> husbands..
>>
>> Even when I rang the local Gray Power they could not believe it..
>>
>>
>>
> Gray Power is just a Labour Party front, a bunch of quavering
> decrepit old collectivists and parasites, what more would you
> expect??

Don't underestimate Grey Power. They try to keep all parties honest, and
they have considerable voting power.

The partner of pension age gets the single pension. The partner under that
age is means tested, if working. So retire too, you can do all the things
around the home that save you money, cooking, growing vegetables, making
clothes etc.

What is of more concern is that the person on a long term Sickness or
Invalid's benefit is means tested, fair enough, but so is their partner.
So a wife can't go back to work, (if she isn't needed full time to care for
her husband), and earn money to get her husband's hip replacement, cataracts
etc done privately, saving the Health system the cost.
The benefit will be cut and they may be even worse off.

What happens under this new civil union legislation? Perhaps a de facto
partner is now treated as a wife and means tested?
It will have stopped the good old "divorce and cohabit" that folks used to
consider, though how many would actually have done that?

On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:15:13 +1200, Redbaiter <> wrote:

>In reply to
>
>>
>> So this is All Bull that the Labour Gov puts out, that the NZ Pension is not
>> Income and Asset Tested, it is, as most Wife's will be younger than their
>> husbands..
>>
>> Even when I rang the local Gray Power they could not believe it..
>>
>>
>>
>Gray Power is just a Labour Party front, a bunch of quavering
>decrepit old collectivists and parasites, what more would you
>expect??



And what are you on about..?

wrote:

> On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:15:13 +1200, Redbaiter <>
> wrote:
>
>>In reply to
>>
>>>
>>> So this is All Bull that the Labour Gov puts out, that the NZ Pension
>>> is not
>>> Income and Asset Tested, it is, as most Wife's will be younger than
>>> their husbands..
>>>
>>> Even when I rang the local Gray Power they could not believe it..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Gray Power is just a Labour Party front, a bunch of quavering
>>decrepit old collectivists and parasites, what more would you
>>expect??
>
>
>
> And what are you on about..?

He's a dribbler. Safely ignored.

Geopelia wrote:


> The partner of pension age gets the single pension. The partner under that
> age is means tested, if working. So retire too, you can do all the things
> around the home that save you money, cooking, growing vegetables, making
> clothes etc.
>
How do they manage that on a single pension?

On Tue, 23 May 2006 14:20:35 +1200, "Geopelia" <>
wrote:
>
>The partner of pension age gets the single pension. The partner under that
>age is means tested, if working. So retire too, you can do all the things
>around the home that save you money, cooking, growing vegetables, making
>clothes etc.
>
>What is of more concern is that the person on a long term Sickness or
>Invalid's benefit is means tested, fair enough, but so is their partner.
>So a wife can't go back to work, (if she isn't needed full time to care for
>her husband), and earn money to get her husband's hip replacement, cataracts
>etc done privately, saving the Health system the cost.
>The benefit will be cut and they may be even worse off.
>
>What happens under this new civil union legislation? Perhaps a de facto
>partner is now treated as a wife and means tested?

That is correct.

>It will have stopped the good old "divorce and cohabit" that folks used to
>consider, though how many would actually have done that?
>

I don't think so - if you could pull it off convincingly, once
divorced, you would not be in a relationship in the nature of
marriage.

On Tue, 23 May 2006 16:04:52 +1200,
wrote:

>On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:15:13 +1200, Redbaiter <> wrote:
>
>>In reply to
>>
>>>
>>> So this is All Bull that the Labour Gov puts out, that the NZ Pension is not
>>> Income and Asset Tested, it is, as most Wife's will be younger than their
>>> husbands..
>>>
>>> Even when I rang the local Gray Power they could not believe it..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Gray Power is just a Labour Party front, a bunch of quavering
>>decrepit old collectivists and parasites, what more would you
>>expect??
>
>
>
>And what are you on about..?
>
Just his usual crap.
--

Brian Dooley

Wellington New Zealand

"Jason Fanning" <> wrote in message
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> Geopelia wrote:
>
>
>> The partner of pension age gets the single pension. The partner under
>> that age is means tested, if working. So retire too, you can do all the
>> things around the home that save you money, cooking, growing vegetables,
>> making clothes etc.
>>
> How do they manage that on a single pension?

There is an small allowance for an underage partner who isn't working.

It would be a question of whether it is still worth going to work for the
tiny pittance left after the means testing, and paying fares or running a
second car, business clothes, lunches, make-up, hairdos etc, or of making
ends meet by doing all the things a wife at home has the time to do. Her
expenses are far less, as she doesn't need to"keep up appearances".
We managed with Hubby on the invalid benefit, and when we finally got the
full pension we thought we were millionaires!

wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:15:13 +1200, Redbaiter <> wrote:
>
>
>>In reply to
>>
>>
>>>So this is All Bull that the Labour Gov puts out, that the NZ Pension is not
>>>Income and Asset Tested, it is, as most Wife's will be younger than their
>>>husbands..
>>>
>>>Even when I rang the local Gray Power they could not believe it..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Gray Power is just a Labour Party front, a bunch of quavering
>>decrepit old collectivists and parasites, what more would you
>>expect??
>
>
>
>
> And what are you on about..?
>
>
Don't hassle him, he's having a Senior Moment.

A L P