By the numbers
$250,000 IS CLOSE to the magic number if you want to know how much you need to save through super as a single homeowner while still being eligible for the age pension. When we last ran a similar cover story two years ago, some readers were aghast at the idea of anyone wanting to have the best of both worlds. Surely with so many people struggling to make ends meet, anyone with a hefty nest egg shouldn’t try to game the system and get additional government assistance in their old age. But I think this misses the point that unless we have a national discussion about superannuation and its impact on our social system, more people would be spending decades at work only to walk into their retirement worse off because they…