PremiumOpinionOpinion byNadine HigginsThe Prosperity Project host·NZ Herald·4 Jul, 2026 11:00 PM6 mins to readNadine Higgins is the host of NZME's personal finance podcast The Prosperity Project. She was formerly a financial journalist and broadcaster.Rising super costs put pension age and means testing back in focus. Photo / 123rfIn 2017, I wrote an (admittedly quite provocative) open letter to baby boomers, following an election policy by National to raise the age of entitlement to the old-age pension to 67.
It wasn’t enough, I posited, and the intergenerational inequities would eventually result in an exodus of young people, leaving
