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Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... effectively, particularly in areas like mental health underwriting where transparency is essential." CALI is worried that safety nets are stretched far too thin, with many Australians concerned they'll slip through the cracks, with chief executive ...

Insurance in super remains a mystery to millions of Australians

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
... the welfare system. A review, it said, should also assess the gaps and overlaps between insurance in super and other safety nets, including workers compensation, Centrelink payments, the NDIS, and insurance outside of super. SCA's research was based ...

Permanent disablement claims for mental health explodes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... end of the day, it's Australian taxpayers who'll be footing the bill if these trends continue as government safety nets and payments are stretched beyond capacity," Cupitt said.

Australia's safety nets 'stretched too thin': CALI

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... that Australians are experiencing higher living costs and increasing mental health issues, making reliable financial safety nets more important. The inaugural State of Australia's Safety Net report investigates the link between life insurance and the ...

Australia's budget position ranks second among G20 nations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... entitlement reforms in advanced economies with aging populations and improving the targeting and efficiency of social safety nets to support the most vulnerable populations."

Income inequality elevated, spikes: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... massive debt and interest repayments divert resources from crucial areas like public education, healthcare, and social safety nets, threatening to unravel hard-won development gains. Oxfam's analysis of the World Bank's International Development Association ...

COVID not only health issue on Budget radar

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... (PBS), with treatments for bowel cancer, breast cancer and cystic fibrosis among the new listings on the PBS. The PBS safety nets for both concessional patients and general patients will also be reduced from July 1 of this year - a decision which the ...

Accessing super cements inequality: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... 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 decreased for low-income earners during the pandemic. Many people aged over 45, disability ...

Financial literacy the bridge for income protection gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... financially literate, least likely to have protective mechanisms in place and had the greatest trust in government safety nets. Separately, Zurich has announced the appointment of a new state manager for Victoria and Tasmania. Hamish MacLean has joined ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... never been free to taxpayers so patients are being asked to make a modest contribution towards their cost. Of course safety nets are important, so we are simplifying the Medicare Safety Net with lower thresholds for most people, and we have safety net ...
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