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Remove insurance from super: Cassidy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
Tasplan chief Neil Cassidy says insurance should be removed from superannuation and a national scheme put in place instead. Cassidy expects a national scheme to offer more universal coverage with cost and efficiency benefits for both members and funds. ...

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 ...

NIIS development on track

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
The advisory group established by the government following the Productivity Commission's inquiry into a National Disability and Insurance Scheme has endorsed the Gillard government' policy approach. "The Advisory Group's work on the issues associated ...

Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... increased family payments, including cash grants for education costs. Other initiatives are $1 billion to kick-start the National Insurance and Disability Scheme, $500 million each for dental health and regional health care, and $3.7 billion for a restructuring ...

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 ...

Disability review assesses role of insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... for couple pensioner combined on the maximum rate. The investigation is part of the government's ten-year National Disability Strategy. The commission is expected to report to the government on disability care in July 2011.
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