Quote Originally Posted by fungus pudding View Post
NZ super is not a benefit. It is a universal entitlement. Superannuitants are not 'other beneficiaries'.
If learning to earn a living is not relevant when setting voting age, why not make it five? Surely if they are old enough to go to school, they are old enough to have their say in the system.
You need to apply to WINZ and satisfy their criteria for payment as with other WINZ payments.

I didn’t know 5 year olds, like 16 year olds, were able to apply for an adult passport, to be criminally responsible, get married, apply for a gun licence, choose where they live, work as an adult, leave school, drive.

So 16 year olds can drive, own a gun, get married and have legal blessing to become parents. They have legal capacity to act as an adult in life’s most adult, and indeed most dangerous, of decisions and activities, yet they cannot vote in an election. It is patently ridiculous.