Grey Power Hutt City Assn

Grey Power Hutt City Assn Grey Power's main goals are to advance, support and protect the welfare and well being of older people.

To strive for quality Health Care to all New Zealand residents. To ensure New Zealanders receive a suitable superannuation benefit.

Last Friday we had an excellent presentation by Kate Kenworthy, Senior Investigator and India Lawrence, Investigator fro...
19/07/2026

Last Friday we had an excellent presentation by Kate Kenworthy, Senior Investigator and India Lawrence, Investigator from the Banking Ombudsman's Office. The below photos are of Kate and our president, Pete Matcham and Kate and India.

We had a successful meeting yesterday with Minister for Seniors, Casey Costello. These photos show our President, Pete M...
09/07/2026

We had a successful meeting yesterday with Minister for Seniors, Casey Costello. These photos show our President, Pete Matcham, giving his introduction to Casey.

01/07/2026

HUTT CITY GREY POWER is pleased to host Casey Costello speaking on BETTER LATER LIFE STRATEGY

At our special meeting on Thursday, 9 July, we host Casey Costello who will update us on the new Action Plan for the Better Later Life Strategy.

Come and hear about the work being done to support older people, help address cost-of-living pressures, strengthen aged care, and promote independence and participation in later life.
After the presentation, there will be time for conversation, questions, and informal networking with Casey and local service providers over tea and refreshments.

This will be the only presentation by Casey in the Wellington District.

When - Thursday, 9 July
Time - 2PM
Where - Hutt Bowling Club, 6 Myrtle St, Central Hutt

All welcome.

19/02/2026

Déjà vu all over again
– once again we’ve got people claiming that paying NZ Super at age 65 is ‘unaffordable’. The first and most immediate problem is that people in the world of finance claiming disaster lies ahead get air time. Saying that things are OK isn’t news. Secondly, the pundits waffling on about unaffordability are the lot that wine and dine with politicians and hence get to expound their views into ears receptive for anything that might get more money for the well off rather than the un deserving poor.
So at the risk of boring you all, I do think we need to keep repeating facts ad nauseam until it seeps into politicians heads that older people matter.
OK Boring fact No 1. In politics nothing is ‘unaffordable’. It’s all about choice. “Unaffordable” is code for ‘we want to spend the money on something else, that we think is more important’.
Boring fact No 2. Currently NZ Super is, by design, set at a rate that covers the bare minimum – just. For forty percent of older people it is their only income. It is of course those least well off who have the lowest life expectancy and who are physically worn out by age 65 that need NZS most.
Boring fact 3. The amount we as a country pay to fund NZ Super is below the average for developed nations, and funnily enough those countries haven’t collapsed economically.
Boring fact 4 Net spending on NZS is projected to be 5.5 per cent of GDP by 2050 - still below the OECD average!
So who is the latest to push the ‘unaffordable’ idea? Oh! What a surprise, it’s the CEO of a ‘wealth management’ outfit that wants you to invest with them – so obviously an independent view – Hah!

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Senior Citizens Rooms, Ground Floor, Forsyth Barr Tower 45 Knights Road
Lower Hutt
5010

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