Resources

COTA Australia provided a brief response to the Department of Social Service's consultation on its Position Paper 'Means Test Rules for Lifetime Retirement Income Streams' released 16 January 2018 and revised 7 February 2018.

The design and distribution obligations (DADOs) should help to achieve a cultural shift within financial firms away from simply ‘selling’ financial products towards designing and distributing suitable products that meet customer needs.

Federal Budget 2018-19 Pre-Budget Positioning Statement

November 2017 - COTA welcomes the opportunity to provide a brief comment to the Australia Energy Regulator (AER) Customer Price Information Issues Paper dated September 2017.

October 2017 - COTA welcomes the opportunity to provide a brief comment to the AEMC consultation paper on National Energy Retail Amendment (Notification of the end of a fixed benefit period) Rule 2017 (Reference RRC0010) dated 12 September 2017.

July 2017 - COTA opposes the Bill, just as we opposed the 2016 Budget Measure, because removing access to the very modest Energy Supplement for new income support recipients and pensioners will impact negatively and inequitably on those least able to bear it, including older people.