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Super roundtable supports small business clearing house

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... superfunds need to increase their promotion of its services," Minister Shorten said. A policy debate arose last year over the Medicare clearing house with the Coalition saying it was too expensive and proposing the ATO administer payments - a suggestion ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... through to the end of 2012, prolongs extended unemployment benefits, and prevents a cut in pay for doctors who treat Medicare patients. We've heard the Fed promise more if it's best isn't good enough. We've seen the IMF shift its prescription toward ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... cut through the end of 2012, prolongs extended unemployment benefits, and prevents a cut in pay for doctors who treat Medicare patients. And here's the last one. Investors who "bought when everybody was fearful" back in the middle of 2010 have at most ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... cut through the end of 2012, prolongs extended unemployment benefits, and prevents a cut in pay for doctors who treat Medicare patients. The House and Senate passed the bill last week." Nothing of much note has changed outside of Australia over the past ...

DHS to takeover early super release on compassionate grounds

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... grounds. From next month, the Department of Human Services (DHS) will take over the administration of the payments from Medicare/DHS, who have carried out the process under a service agreement since February. Before then, the administration was operated ...

Super funds prefer employers via clearing houses

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... or two payments from the Federal Government's Small Business Superannuation Clearing House. The service, run through Medicare, offers a free processing service to small businesses with less than 20 employees, but Collister said the uptake had not been ...

Super now the fourth pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... that is now 110% of the nation's GDP. "The first pillar is the basic wage, the second is the age pension, the third is Medicare and superannuation is now the fourth. I believe the National Disability Insurance Scheme will become the fifth," said minister ...

Coalition, small business reject super clearing house model

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... paying through the ATO at his organisation's website. The new Small Business Superannuation Clearing House, run through Medicare, offers a free processing service to small businesses with less than 20 employees. But Peter Strong, executive director of ...

Medicare to handle compassionate super payouts

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... its duties to administer the early release of superannuation on compassionate grounds, handing the responsibility to Medicare. Only around $1.5 million of super savings were released through compassionate payments in the 2010/2011 financial year and ...

Policy war erupts over super clearing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... method for processing superannuation payments. The Coalition, on Friday, issued a statement blasting the Government's Medicare superannuation clearing house as a $16 million white elephant that is used by only one per cent of employers. But the Government ...