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Cbus launches Age Pension campaign

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... applications. It will also platform information about other government entitlements including JobSeeker and Disability Support Pension. Cbus will also offer retirement planning seminars for members with low super balances, and advice services to help ...

More to do in the fight against inflation: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024
... bringing the total to almost 300. "We're indexing payments for people on Jobseeker, the age pension, disability support pension, carer payment and parenting payment, as well as Commonwealth Rent Assistance," Chalmers said. "This support is on top of ...

Treasury outlines plans to boost employment

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2023
... apply to recipients of JobSeeker, Youth Allowance, Austudy, ABSTUDY, Parenting Payment, Age Pension, Disability Support Pension and Carer Payment. "This is about putting the right incentives in place to get more Australians into work," Treasurer Jim ...

Accessing super cements inequality: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
A new report has assessed the impact of COVID-19 on low-income earners in Australia, with findings illustrating harm caused by the early release of super program. The Brotherhood of St Lawrence Shocks and Safety Nets report found that financial wellbeing ...

RIR reveals bleak financial upside for disabled people

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... means testing is going far enough. People who are blind are not means tested for the age pension or disability support pension. In 1954, the means test for people who are blind was removed as part of a broader aim to remove all means testing from the ...

Adviser demands answers from Media Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... edge," Johns said. "She is very vulnerable and Centrelink acknowledged that and approved her for the disability support pension. To get that pension is a much harder test than a TPD claim." He added that the fund has already essentially admitted that ...

COVID-19 could end Centrelink stigma

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
Long lines outside Centrelink branches have become defining images of the effect the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the Australian economy. But what impact will it have on the stigma associated with welfare? When Prime Minister Scott Morrison said 2020 ...

Ageing population poses budget threat

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... Disability Insurance Scheme, Commonwealth funding for schools and hospitals, Family Tax Benefit or the Disability Support Pension - all of which are amongst the top ten spending programs in the Commonwealth budget." As Australia's largest generational ...

Productivity Commission counters group insurance research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... argued claim payouts for some members may reduce eligibility for social security payments, primarily Disability Support Pension (DSP) payments. Additionally, super balances eroded by insurance premiums lead to greater Age Pension payments for some members. ...

FEATURE: Gear up for retirement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... the Age Pension eligibility age to 70 years old by 2035 and the indexing of the Age Pension and the Disability Support pension to inflation, rather than wages, from 2017, have immense implications for retirees and pre-retirees. Australians were confronted ...
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