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Super funds need to clarify DisabilityCare to members

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... current cover. Volpato said that the confusion arises because DisabilityCare is branded as "the national disability insurance scheme." "DisabilityCare is about service provision, so it is very important for super funds to remind their members that it ...

FPA wants schools to teach financial literacy

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... and was a core part of entrepreneurship programs. The FPA also asked for MySuper and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) to be included in the National Financial Literacy Strategy. "MySuper and the superannuation guarantee increases are designed ...

NDIS does not replace life insurance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
The national DisabilityCare system, formerly known as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), does not replace the need for life insurance, argues AIA Australia (AIA) in a briefing note to advisers. "When the concept of the DisabilityCare scheme ...

Budget 2013-14 wrap up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... been confirmed, the Medicare levy will increase by 0.5% from next year to offset the cost of National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), some future tax cuts have been scrapped along with some other deductions and rebates, and the baby bonus will be ...

Super debate heats up ahead of Budget

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... Australians is enough to fully fund all recommendations from the Gonski Report, implement the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and still have change left over!" said GetUp! "The money that could be used to make massive overhauls in healthcare, education ...

Untargeted tax subsidies inept

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... what it spends on defence and 4.5 times what it spends on disability income support and the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Richard Denniss, TAI executive director, said the study does not question the usefulness of tax concessions to help people ...

Untargeted tax subsidies inefficient

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... what is spent on defence and 4.5 times what is spent on disability income support and the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Richard Denniss, TAI executive director, said the study does not question the usefulness of tax concessions to help people ...

Super now the fourth pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
Superannuation is now the fourth pillar of Australia's social and economic life and the national disability insurance scheme will develop to become the fifth, said minister Bill Shorten at a major superannuation function at Parliament House in Canberra ...

PC disability insurance final report released

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... cover for income loss for people experiencing disability (and would not be affected by the National Disability Insurance Scheme), they are not suited to universal coverage of the population against the potential costs of longterm care and support associated ...

PC recommends social insurance shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... Shorten, now assistant treasurer, in 2009 when he was minister for disability services. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and National Injury Insurance Scheme (NIIS) would address failings in Australia's disability support system which ...
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