Should the retirement age be raised to 67?

The current age of eligibility for NZ superannuation is 65. File photo / Hawkes Bay Today

Opinion

Doctors are calling for higher family welfare benefits and taking GST off healthy food - with the extra costs funded by raising the retirement pension age.

An editorial by three leading doctors in today's NZ Medical Journal says the country has got its priorities wrong, paying a generous pension to everyone from age 65 while 22 per cent of children are living in poverty, mainly because their parents are on inadequate benefits.

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