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Taskforce suggests aged care funding be based on personal wealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
... and aged care costs," the report states. "These superannuation trends, combined with high asset wealth through the family home and other investments, mean increasingly people still have accumulated wealth and income streams when they need to access aged ...

Cut spending and raise taxes, super preservation age: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... of the recommendations from Grattan Institute ahead of the federal budget, which also include counting more of the family home in the aged pension assets and residential aged care means tests. With Australia on course for 25 straight years of deficit ...

Stop penalising women: HESTA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
... retirement," it said. "Women perform 80% more unpaid work at home each week than men including child-care, caring for other family members, housework, shopping, and food preparation." It added PwC previously estimated that the replacement cost of informal ...

Affordable housing in Budget spotlight

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... fund will provide 20,000 new social housing dwellings, 4000 of which will be allocated to women and children impacted by family violence and older women at risk of homelessness. A further 10,000 dwellings will be provided for frontline workers. Up to ...

Data demonstrates success of compulsory super: Report

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2022
... intention to maintain most or all their capital was statistically more likely for men than women and for those who had helped a family member or friend access aged care. The standout reason for maintaining capital for most people was to fund medical ...

Budget targets home ownership rates

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... also outlines an expansion to the number of places available under the existing First Home Guarantee and Family Home Guarantee schemes. First of all, 35,000 new First Home Guarantee places each year for three years will be made available to first home ...

Budget to back aspiring homeowners

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... enabling legislation. Additionally, 5000 guarantees each year from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025 will expand the Family Home Guarantee initiative which was announced in last year's budget. The Family Home Guarantee is specifically targeted to single ...

Action on super gap slow, small

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... fact women generally take far more time out of paid employment to do unpaid work, such as caring for children and elderly family members. As a society, we need to keep making a concerted effort to address these imbalances," Stewart says. Despite the ...

Actuaries Institute releases retirement policy review

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2021
... removal of disincentives for older Australians who want to continue to work, and greater flexibility for the role of the family home in retirement income provisioning."

No early super release for DV survivors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... separation, and move on with their lives." As previously reported, the government will also establish the Family Home Guarantee which will make available 10,000 government guarantees over four years to eligible single parents with dependants. The initiative ...
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