1 in 3 age pensioners live in poverty in Australia

Bet that caught your eye!

Just have to love the introduction sentence but is it too subtle for this forum.

 

Discuss.

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Not true

The Pension payments are above the Poverty threshold for both single and couples as well as for those who do and do not rent.

And your proof is? Link plse

https://melbourneinstitute.com/miaesr/publications/indicators/poverty-lines-australia.html#y2014

It's a shame that in Australia we have lost what once we were famous for . Our rugged individualism standing on your own two feet and providing for you and yours. 

However we have to accept reality and find it neccesary to have enforced saving to provide for old age. I would expand this and with dramatic lower tax change the system to a provident fund like Singapore.

http://www.ldp.org.au/index.php/policies/1167-welfare

Wash your mouth out Pete ;)...you know the goverment is there to provide everything a person wants. 

Yep - and the more the government gives, the more they want.

Everyone should not bother to save, we should all rely on the government.

Pension at 65 enough to keep us in comfort

Comfortable Unemployment, if god forbid we cant find work we like

And if we are sick or disabled, then we should be automatically be entitled to disability equal to the age pension PLUS full medical assistance at home

Why cant we have this. I demand it!!!!

What about pensioners in Private Rental at $230 per week plus???  I know a few ...........try taking $1000+ outta a monthly pension - utility payments - phone - petrol - food etc .....then be a smart arse......

Foxy - there's idiots everywhere. If they can't manage their finance , too bad so sad

Look theres even some on this forum

Bloody hell where do you get rental at 230 bucks a week it must be in Boganville ..

In Boganville that would get you a 4 bedroom with swimming pool.

Trouble isthey have got into a cycle of paying such high tax they can't afford anything ...

I want to drive a sx cyciilder car and  go to the pub and have a beer and have a smoke on the pavement. But the greenies won't let me..

Serves you right for voting against the carbon tax.

How can they back down from non existng cuts,, or did they take co2 compensation away now there is no co2 tax,,,

Tobacco prices, for example, rose by the most in the past 12 months, but the ABS estimates that employee households on average spend only 2.25 per cent of their weekly earnings getting a nicotine fix, compared to 5.83 per cent for pensioner and other beneficiary households.

That's a big difference, and not buying items like tobacco and alcohol can thus make a big difference to your cost of living. For example, inflation rose 3 per cent in the past year, but if you exclude alcohol and tobacco it only rose 2.8 per cent.

What these different weightings show is that certain government policies can hit certain households more than others. It's why the introduction of the carbon price hurt pensioner and government beneficiary households more than employee ones.

The carbon price most affected the price of utilities - electricity and gas. But whereas employee households only spend on average 3.28 per cent of their earnings on utilities, those on pensions and government benefits spend 6.09 per cent and 5.06 per cent respectively keeping the lights and gas going.

It was also why the Gillard government's compensation for the carbon price was heavily weighted in favour of lower income earners.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-06/jericho-rising-living-costs-are-hitting-some-of-us-harder/5649824

Government Nanny tax's are keeping pensioners poor and taking away any little pleasures they have. 

To the barricades , throw off the yoke of socialism ahead is freedom ...

Spelling error - should read "joke"

Pensioners in private rental have a terrible time due to the cost, instability when your rental is sold on, and not infrequently the slum landlord from hell.

Abbott‘s govt then went ahead and abolished the NRAS (National Rental Afforability) scheme which was affording pensioners and other low income people, including workers on low salaries, decent new builds owned by private investors to live in.

The waiting lists are incredible for public housing. By a miracle I got public housing three years ago as at the time I fitted the criteria for priority housing and a Catholic Community Care worker did all the legwork for me. I would advise anyone to ask for help from various charity groups as you get nowhere on your own with your application I found out.

How about if you had not paid so much tax when. You worked and could have afforded to look after yourself....

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