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Study shows many Australian retirees on low incomes

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2004
... released yesterday found. Figures that validate growing concern in Canberra about the population's reliance on the age pension showed 70% of retirees are scraping by on $16,000 or less per annum. The vast majority of that $320 per week comes from the ...

ALP launches new superannuation plan, emphasising simplicity

... Australians deserve include achievement of higher retirement incomes delivered over time through a combination of age pension plus superannuation set against a clear goal, simplicity, safer choice, affordability and justly taxed. ALP also highlighted ...

ASFA comments on IFSA policy statement

... people will expect to have, and the one that current compulsory and voluntary super contributions combined with the age pension, will eventually provide. "The IFSA findings reconfirm ASFA's previous research that the current levels of savings do not ...

ASFA welcomes Senate committee superannuation report

... purpose of superannuation is to improve the adequacy of individual retirement incomes and to reduce reliance on the age pension," said Philippa Smith, ASFA chief executive. "In a mature system, the amounts of money saved through superannuation will become ...

Macquarie welcomes Senate superannuation recommendations

... qualify for a higher level of concessionally taxed superannuation benefits and help other investors qualify for a higher age pension via social security assets test concessions." "The growth pension would have similarities with allocated pensions, allowing ...

Towers Perrin blasts Government decision to "ignore" super

... adequacy of, retirement savings. Without increased incentives to save, many Australians face the prospect of reliance on age pension, which will be funded by a shrinking workforce, Towers Perrin said. It added that superannuation tax on contributions ...

OECD calls for improvements in Australia's super tax system

... that the preservation age for superannuation benefits would have to be aligned with that of the access age to the Age Pension of 65 years. But the report also said that Australia is well-placed amongst OECD countries to handle the burden of public pensions ...