Ryan Bridge: We need more of a heads up on Kiwisaver

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · May 25, 2025 · 2m · transcript

KiwiSaver.

I was thinking about this at the weekend. I get why the government is doing the old switcharoo. I get it. Means test the government sweet we, halve it for everyone else… save some money.

Then we workers… and our employers… will slowly put more into the scheme…

So that when it all comes out in the wash, we’re at least no worse off than before budget day.

Except that we will be worse off, because it’s us and our employers paying for it.

We pay more up front. Our employers pay more up front. That’s added cost. Businesses recover cost by putting up prices, which we end up paying, or by…