Tag: age pension

Older Australians will welcome $750 cash payments and a reduction in deeming rates announced today in the Government’s relief package announced today, the peak body for older consumers said today.

COTA Australia welcomes the Genuine Redundancy and Early Retirement Scheme Payments legislation change, the need for which is obvious and unarguable, and indeed not to make it would be most unfair and inconsistent. The change does not, however, go far enough.

Leading seniors’ advocacy body COTA Australia today welcomed the Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement the government will overturn its policy of increasing the retirement pension age to 70 years - after it reaches 67 years in 2023.