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ACC levys hit car owners
Friday, 23 October 2009, 10:45 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Superannuitants looking forward to a rise in their super in 2010 should forget it. If they own a car, Government propose that they pay $8-00 per week per vehicle, being the ACC levy component of the Motor Vehicle Registration. This equates to a weekly ... More >>
Grey Power Federation: Congrats to Min. of Justice
Monday, 19 October 2009, 9:17 am | Grey Power New Zealand
The Grey Power Federation welcomes and congratulates the Minister of Justice on his release to help victims of crime and their families. While, all the eight initiatives will be beneficial to the many victims of violent crime Grey Power recognize that ... More >>
Questions Arise Over Government Prophecies
Friday, 16 October 2009, 1:06 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
New Zealanders are being told that the Budget deficit figures for the year to June show the worst Budget deficit in the country’s history and the recovery will take 20 years. New Zealanders are being told that there will be a massive rise in ACC ... More >>
Grey Power on Mighty River Power
Friday, 4 September 2009, 3:07 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
NIWA say we are having a much warmer winter in 2009. The average August temperature for New Zealand was 1.7 C warmer. Yet some people cannot pay their electricity heating bills! Are the Government-owned companies like Mighty River still gouging their customers, ... More >>
Grey Power Wellington Lobby Report
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 11:41 am | Grey Power New Zealand
The Lobby Team of Dick Stark, Roy Reid, Ian Anderson and the writer Les Howard, met with various Government Ministers, MPs, Ministries and other organisations allied to Grey Power from 17 to 20 August 2009. This was a very busy round of meetings, ... More >>
On Extending The Retirement Age To 67
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 5:10 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power is prepared to accept that some day in New Zealand the retirement age may go out to 67, but it will not be soon and it will not be before a great many years. Why? More >>
What is New Zealand coming to?
Tuesday, 4 August 2009, 12:48 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
· There are calls to consider putting the retirement age up to 67 years which will not only succeed in people not leaving work as early, but will block younger ones coming in at the bottom, and we have thousands of young out of work now. More >>
Grey Power Health Media Release
Monday, 3 August 2009, 1:00 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power NZ congratulates and supports the statements made by the Principal Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft and the contemplated rewrite of the Sale of Liquor Act as outlined by the Law Commission President, Sir Geoffrey Palmer. The cost to NZ ... More >>
Night Classes and Tertiary Education.
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 11:36 am | Grey Power New Zealand
The Government is considering pulling the mat from under Grand Parents who are endeavouring to raise Grandchildren. Many of these people are already struggling to raise these children on their Superannuation pay packet, with practically no help from the government, ... More >>
No protection For Savers
Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 1:46 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Obviously the Retirement Commissioner is not in the same category of many New Zealanders when she states that unless the National Superannuation eligibility age is raised to 67 years superannuitants will be begging in the streets because we are a nation ... More >>
Govt cuts now could mean more costs in the future
Tuesday, 14 July 2009, 3:37 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
If National goes ahead with the cutting and stopping of tertiary education and night classes for the older people of this nation it could mean that future governments may have to spend much more. It is a well known fact that learning anything new keeps ... More >>
N.Z. Grey Power Asks Why?
Tuesday, 14 July 2009, 3:32 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power wishes to remind the NZ Government that NZ is NZ and this country has no need to emulate Australian Policies. When will Common Sense prevail ?. Market Research Surveys have stated that 87 per cent of the NZ Community do not want the ... More >>
Local Government kills Golden Goose
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 3:11 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
If Councils kept rate increases within Consumer Price Index then Ratepayers would not complain to Government about rate increases well exceeding inflation but unfortunately the Golden Goose was asked to lay a golden egg to often and the result is the Minister ... More >>
Does National expect people over 65 to Give Up?
Friday, 3 July 2009, 12:39 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
• First they consider removing the education tertiary allowance for over 65 year olds. • Then they block an enquiry into whether older New Zealanders were receiving the health care they are entitled to. • Just to make things even worse they decide ... More >>
Grey Power Fury At Education Cuts
Friday, 3 July 2009, 9:25 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power joins Age Concern in protest to the threatened cuts to tertiary education for those over 65 years. This policy is ageist and discriminatory and attempts to justify it as making the “hard decisions” is ludicrous. How can it be justified ... More >>
Media Release Grey Power Sick Of Rates Rising
Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 11:19 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power New Zealand Are Incensed At Local Body Councils Who Have Rate Increases Running Well Into Two Digits, Every Year Of The Next Three, And Will Be Talking To Hon Rodney Hide On This Subject,Along With Local Government NZ, On 25th June. More >>
Power Overcharges Leave Grey Power Feeling Cold
Monday, 25 May 2009, 2:59 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
It is timely to remind all electricity consumers that they have, and are paying over and over again, for their assets in high electricity prices. The Consumers previously owned the electricity industry by paying a capital levy of 25% of their electricity ... More >>
Grey Power Wants Answers On Health Issues
Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 12:58 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
The NZ Grey Power organisation signified to the new Government its support for changes in the Health system, as long as they were of benefit to the consumer, and felt that as a new Government it would be able to announce many proposed changes from the outset ... More >>
Grey Power Support Modest OCR Cut
Friday, 13 March 2009, 5:25 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
It was announced to day that the Reserve Bank Governor has lowered the Official Cash Rate to 3% and that he did not go lower because of the strong opposition from Superannuitants. More >>
Concern at rising energy prices.
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 2:10 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power National President, Mr Les Howard, has today expressed concern at rising energy prices. "Meridian Energy raised electricity prices to domestic consumers in September 2008 by approximately 8%, well above the rate of inflation and at a time ... More >>
