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Federal budget 2023: Winners and losers

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... Registry. First home buyers: While the government did expand the variety of home buyers eligible to access its Home Guarantee Scheme, the number of spots available for the next financial year remains the same and there was little else in the way of immediate ...

ASIC confirms advisers can offer home equity access guidance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2023
... mortgages that are regulated under the National Credit Act." The Home Equity Access Scheme (HEAS), previously named the Pension Loans Scheme (PLS), has been a long-standing Centrelink scheme that functions similarly to a reverse mortgage. According to ...

Prime Minister announces reverse mortgage scheme

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
... Howson, Morrison said the mid-year budget will include a cash access scheme for pensioners. "We've had a pension loan scheme for some time, but this is making it even more attractive by reducing the interest rate," the Prime Minister explained. The ...

More flexibility for retirees

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... older Australians by abolishing the work test, extending access to downsizer contributions and improving the Pension Loan Scheme. From 1 July 2022, those aged between 67-years-old and 74-years-old will no longer be subject to meeting a work test before ...

No big losers in FY22 budget

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... being extended to those aged 60 and over. Currently, it is only available to those 65 and over. Changes to the Pension Loan Scheme are also being introduced from July next year. Older Australians will also be looked after in the form of a $17.7 billion ...

Retirees freed from legacy products

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... measure. The government is introducing a two-year amnesty for individuals in market-linked, life-expectancy, lifetime pension and annuity products from any provider which were commenced prior to 20 September 2007, including self-managed super funds. ...

Stimulus, ERS boost financial comfort

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... long term savings (in particular, superannuation) as well as delayed bill payments and, to a much lesser extent, deferred loan payment," it said.

ATO warns against SMSF property development

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... towards the transfer balance cap, allowing a greater amount of earnings within the SMSF to be treated as exempt current pension income," it said. "We have previously seen property purchases funded by poorly implemented LRBAs and/or funding arrangements ...

Australia to lean on super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... have to manually issue the money. "Effective co-ordination from the government and the ATO will be vital to ensure the scheme works efficiently and does not frustrate people further remembering that the workforce of many funds are working remotely just ...

Bank of Mum and Dad forking out serious dosh

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... you combined it as a gifting strategy five years prior to eligibility age, you could perhaps still qualify for the age pension." Theobald said the new trend had been spawn from decades of low interest rates and people gearing their investments to the ...
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