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Budget commitment to aged care not good enough

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced the government will commit more than $1.6 billion to provide support to the country's ageing Australians, but experts say the measures don't go far enough. The Treasurer announced the record funding would ...

ERS extension flagged, criticised

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... those who access the scheme will be tens of thousands worse off in retirement and will become more reliant on the aged pension. Additionally, ISA said its own research shows the scheme has added tens of billions more to the aged pension, heaping pressure ...

ISA, Grattan find common ground

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
... agree with those findings and claim the prospect creates a generational rift between those "getting by on the meagre aged pension" against their children lumped with paying for their parents' retirements. "The think-tank's retirement modelers have confirmed ...

ATO cracks down on ERS misuse

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... regrow balances after this scheme, because we all pay, through higher taxes, for more people retiring with only the aged pension."

Super tax concessions out of hand

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... households and men. "Superannuation tax concessions were initially designed to help Australia become less reliant on the aged pension, but with the rapid increase in the concessions they will soon become even more costly," Australia Institute senior ...

Opt-out super to hit workers: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... over their working life. ISA said the proposal would see roughly 4.3 million Australians rely more heavily on the aged pension, which would eventually hit the nation's bottom line. "This dangerous proposal could not only condemn more than one million ...

Calls for better drawdown rules

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... spending. Willis Towers Watson's head of retirement Nick Callil said the retirement income system needs to encompass aged pension and related benefits and compulsory and voluntary superannuation to promote better integration. "Often there is an assumption ...

Businesses warned to avoid dud funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... charged a significant amount of fees. "We are paying $35 billion per year in fees, almost as much as we pay towards the aged pension. We pay another $10 billion in insurance premiums. A combined cost of $45 billion per year to our superannuation funds ...

More Australians retire with big mortgages

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... guarantee - to help older Australians live independently and at a good standard of living without having to rely on the aged pension," Wood said. "If growing numbers of Australians take on debt later in life and use part of their superannuation to pay ...

Navigating the new Pensioners Loan Scheme

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
Age pensioners may be able to borrow up to $54,000 against their family home from July 1 but retirees must weigh individual circumstances before applying for the revamped Pensioners Loan Scheme, says AMP. The scope of the Pensioners Loan Scheme, which ...