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Aussie veterans front Senate over underpaid pensions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2026
... their annual pension amount, and an additional lump sum of their 'Productivity Benefit'," according to the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA). The Commutation Benefit was a lump sum pre-payment of part of a member's future retirement benefit. By taking ...

Alex Dunnin bids farewell to Rainmaker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... program developing the first official quarterly super industry surveys. This followed three years with the Department of Veterans Affairs as a statistics officer, undertaking demographic analysis of veterans, including morbidity and mortality. In 1998 ...

Retirement living advice is an opportunity: Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
On the back of the aged care Royal Commission recently announced, financial advisers should delve deeper into the retirement living conversation with clients, according to a technical services expert. Speaking at yesterday's Challenger Financial ...

Funeral bonds on the minds of advisers

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... funeral bonds," Cooper said. "Investments of up to $12,250 are currently exempt from Centrelink and the Department of Veterans' Affairs income and assets tests, which means there can be important taxation and pension considerations, depending on the ...

Pension rule changes to benefit 740,000

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... supplements such as the Parenting Payment and Newstart, paid by the Department of Human Services and the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
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