SUPER

"SUPER"

I started the on-line application for NZ Superannuation this weekend.
What a pig of a process!
When I got through it all it seems that I still have to visit the department armed with copies of all sorts of documentation in order to:

• prove who I am
• Prove I'm alive
• Prove who my partner is (why that's relevant god knows)
• Prove my address
• Prove my bank account
• etc.etc.

The documentation has to be original with copies signed and proven by a JP or solicitor or Uncle Tom Cobley.

I can't understand why provision of:

• Passport number
• Driving License number or,
• IRD number

can't suffice.

Sometimes I think we live in a country where bureaucracy has gone mad.