Super, reminder

Press, 30 March 1989, Page 4

Super, reminder

DEBORAH MCPHERSON

Some married pensioners receiving national superannuation at the single rate may find they will not be eligible for the general increase in National Superannuation, to take effect from Saturday. The Christchurch Social Welfare Department’s assistant director of benefits and pensions, Mr Cliff Money, said yesterday the department was reminding married national superannuitants receiving the single rate that their rates would be frozen because of legislation introduced last year. Those people would not be eligible for the general increase in national super-

annuation and other benefits and pensions announced recently by the Minister of Social Welfare. The new married rates would be $272.62 each a fortnight, an increase of $6.13 a week. The new single rate would be $327.14 a fortnight. People who were married and received national superannuation on a single rate as a married person with a partner under 60 would continue to receive the present single rate of $312.36 a fortnight. Those on the single rate were likely to stay on that until the married rates were pushed closer to the single rates, said Mr Money.