In this way, the responsibility for social security is shared between the countries where a person has lived during his or her working years and the person can release potential rights. “living alone”, with respect to superannuation or the New Zealand veteran`s pension, has the importance given to it under New Zealand`s social security legislation; and “not living alone” has appropriate meaning; in the case of a single person, the maximum rate of benefit (less a percentage agreed from time to time in writing by the competent authorities and published in the New Zealand Gazette) to be paid under New Zealand social security law to a single person who does not live alone; and several New Zealand interest groups opposed the Australian government`s restrictions on arrivals after 2001. . . .