Boost for pensioners expected in government aid package
A cut to deeming rates is expected this week as part of a federal government economic package to stimulate an economy reeling from the effects of the coronavirus and a summer of bushfires.
Are you still assessed as a homeowner if you sell your home?
Vikki has sold her home and plans to buy another. Is she still considered a homeowner?
Age Pension update: increases and changes from 20 September 2019
Changes to the Age Pension will come into effect on 20 September 2019 and today, we help you find out if you'll receive more money.
Age Pension, deeming rates not realistic: poll finds
The base rate of the Age Pension is not a liveable amount, deeming rates must reflect reality and too many older Australians are hell-bent on leaving an inheritance for the kids, say members.
Friday Flash Poll: Deeming rates and the Age Pension
Deeming rates have been cut – for the first time since 2015 – but are you happy?
Age Pension ‘generous’, says social services minister
Social Services Minister Anne Ruston says the Age Pension is ‘a generous amount of money that Australian taxpayers make available to our older Australians’.
Comment: Are deeming rates the ultimate retiree tax?
Deeming rate cuts don’t go far enough, writes Kaye Fallick, who argues for a lift in the base rate of the Age Pension.
More please say age pensioners
Pensioners say they are pleased but that increase is paltry and will make little difference.
Don’t spend those deeming dollars just yet
There is consensus – from the Government, from the Opposition, from older Australians – that deeming rates need to change. But when?
Comment: Retirees hurt by tax cuts
The Government is spending billions to refund tax to some who need it and many who don’t. But those with the least will receive nothing, writes Kaye Fallick.
Will Government finally act on deeming if cash rate cut?
Is the Reserve Bank about to deliver the first back-to-back interest rate cuts since 2012 and take cash rates to a record low of one per cent?
Poll delivers resounding verdict: Hands off family home
The Friday Flash Poll, Should the family home be part of the assets test?, drew a strong response from almost 2500 YourLifeChoices members – on many fronts.
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