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Deeming rate calculations should be independent: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... income they are actually earning. If income support recipients earn more than these rates, the extra income is not assessed," DSS said. The Combined Pensioners & Superannuants Association is pushing for deeming rates to be set independently. Currently ...

Age Pension changes looming

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... payments also will not be affected. Advisers should be mindful that the changes will not affect the value of the pension, the DSS warned. "The age at which people can access their superannuation does not change. That remains between 55 and 60, depending ...

Philanthropy report offers valuable insights for NFPs: Perpetual

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... strengthening the NFP sector. This research builds on Giving Australia 2005 and was commissioned by the Department of Social Services (DSS) to assist the work of the Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership. The Australian Centre for Philanthropy ...

Challenger negotiates Care Annuity compromise

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2014
The Department of Social Services (DSS) has backed down from its plan to change the way it assesses current holders of the Challenger Care Annuity. However, Challenger has agreed to redesign the product in line with the new 'user pays' aged care policies ...

Government explains Challenger annuity mix-up

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
The Department of Social Services (DSS) has given its reasons for changing the way it assesses Challenger's Care Annuity, saying it had mistakenly been assessing it on the grounds that investors in the annuity could not get their capital back. However ...

Challenger Care Annuity sales suspended

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... announced it would reassess the social security treatment of investors in the annuity. The Department of Social Services (DSS) informed Challenger that the Care Annuity, which provides a lifetime income to people in need of full-time aged care, had "been ...
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