The Sweet Hereafter: Will You Be Better off Under RSS?
Listener 9 August 1997
Keywords: Social Policy;
In this column I assume that the government’s proposed Retirement Savings Scheme (RSS) works the way the government says it will. In which case the RSS is a privatization of the current New Zealand Superannuation (NZS), where instead of the government taking responsibility for the funding, the private sector does, albeit under considerable government regulation.