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| | | ... available to people of pension age or their partners who are unable to receive a full pension because of the income or assets test. The scheme allows people to top up a part pension to the full rate. Compound interest is charged on the loan and it is ... |
| | | | ... retirement, the retirement standard sets a benchmark for the minimum amount required." Under the current Age Pension assets test framework, ASFA estimates a couple would need a joint superannuation balance of around $510,000 to achieve a comfortable ... |
| | | | ... budget will not proceed. However,A Morrison confirmed a number of changes, such as not including the family home in the assets test or increasing the assets free area to qualify for the full pension. The Government is also planning to reduce the maximum ... |
| | | | ... for single home owners and $286,500 to $375,000 for couple home owners. "The family home will not be included in the assets test and never will under a coalition government," Morrison said. At the same time the government is planning to reduce the maximum ... |
| | | | Superannuation should no longer be considered "a top-up" for the Age Pension and the tax treatment of super debate can't be brought up in isolation, the Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive Sally Loane said in her inaugural speech. "The ... |
| | | | ... compulsory or incentivised pensions, whether Age Pension and preservation ages should be aligned with life expectancy, the assets test and access to the Age Pension, the role of life insurance in decreasing the welfare burden, and whether or not 12% ... |
| | | | ... exempt from the social security assets and income test up to the $12,000 threshold. "For an individual subject to the Assets Test, a funeral bond could increase their pension by up to $18 per fortnight, which is equivalent to a 3.9% return on the $12,000 ... |
| | | | ... consumers, and investigate the costs and benefits of exempting equity from the sale of the family home from the age pension assets test. |
| | | | ... six companies achieved sales of $280 million. This figure was achieved mainly because it marked the last year that Assets Test Exemption applied. Sales plummeted back to just $24 million in 2005. In 2012 sales of lifetime annuity products totaled just ... |
| | | | ... capitalisation of $300 million or less. The updated admission requirements include the increase of the net tangible assets test from $2 million to a minimum of $4 million and changing the spread test to allow three levels at which acceptable shareholder ... |
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