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Taskforce suggests aged care funding be based on personal wealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
... non-pensioners, there may be an opportunity for additional differential means testing arrangements based on Commonwealth Seniors Health Card status." In making these recommendations, the taskforce rejected the concept of a specific tax or levy to fund ...

Small wins for some pensioners

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... incentivise them into the workforce. Chalmers has further increased the income threshold for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card. For singles, it will jump from $61,284 to $90,000, and for couples from $98,054 to $144,000. Speaking to Financial Standard ...

When aged care advice takes an emotional toll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... $282,000, he explained. For clients not eligible for the pension, advisers should consider the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card, which provides access to cheaper health care, discounts to electricity and gas bills, and public transport, Fenton said. ...

Pension changes will impact retirement adequacy

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... "If people are losing the Age Pension, the changes allow them to automatically qualify for a Commonwealth seniors health card, which gives them access to the pharmaceutical benefits scheme but that card for example doesn't give them access to a lot of ...

Greens strike pension test deal with coalition

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... taper rate, to the settings that were in place prior to 2007, will be guaranteed access to the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card. Austock Life head of IFA product and relationships, Richard Atkinson, said financial advisers are revisiting Commonwealth ...

Budget forces advisers to rethink tax, retirement strategies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... than wages, from 2017. Untaxed superannuation income will be included in the income test for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card for new recipients. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) noted that ...

Pension age to rise 70 by 2035

JAMES FERNYHOUGH AND AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... rather than wages. Untaxed superannuation income will be included in the income test for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card for new recipients. Infrastructure also loomed large in the budget, with the government announcing a $11.6 billion Infrastructure ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... incomes, untaxed superannuation will be included in the income test for new recipients of the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card. And so that we can better target assistance, the annual Seniors Supplement will be abolished from 1 July this year. Each year ...

Age Pension to rise to 70 by 2035

MARK SMITH, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... Age Pension eligibility, whatever that was at a given time. Finally, it recommended that the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card be maintained, but "that changes be made to improve targeting to those most in need by adding deemed income from tax-free superannuation ...

Govt responds to self-funded retirees

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... couple, with self-funded retirees now also to receive assistance. "Self funded retirees who have a Commonwealth Seniors Health Card will get the same amount of cash assistance as is provided through the pension," said Senator Brown. Self-funded retirees ...
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