NSW Labor returns to Government on cost-of-living ticket
Published 27 March 2023
ON Saturday 25 May, the NSW Labor Party won the state election to form a majority government. The NSW Government regulates only a few things that exclusively affect older people. Transport and other concessions are a good example. But there are other things which affect people regardless of age, such as access to hospitals.
How to make the most of your hard-earned savings
Published 23 March 2023
With banks much quicker to pass interest rate rises on to borrowers than savers, what's the best way to give you bang for your buck?
Lived experience of the cruel NDIS 65 age limit
Published 22 March 2023
A reader living with hydrocephalus wrote to CPSA about the cruel consequences of the NDIS ban of people over 65. Once you reach 65, you can stay on the NDIS if you have it. If you don’t have it, it’s too late.
Community notice board: elder abuse survey, advance care planning week
Published 22 March 2023
Community news: elder abuse survey, advance care planning week
How home aged care providers compete for your business
Published 20 March 2023
Competition in home aged care is not a pretty notion. You're somebody's profit centre. Competition is already happening but it will soon hot up.
Competition not funding main worry in new home aged care
Published 17 March 2023
CHSP providers appear pre-occupied with how their funding will work from 1 July 2024. They may have a bigger problem though: competition.
Power bills on the rise again
Published 16 March 2023
Bad news from the Australian Energy Regulator could see your power bills rise as much as 23.7 per cent in the 2023-24 financial year.
How Mr Hardiman quitting his job affects deeming rates: FOI
Published 15 March 2023
Freedom of Information (FOI) has been in successive federal government's sights, and the Canberra bureaucracy needs no encouragement to knock back FOI applications. It hates transparency, even when it comes to something as deeming rates.
In Home Aged Care: stuff you need
Published 12 March 2023
The start of the new In Home Aged Care program (IHAC) is planned for 1 July 2024. One part of the new program will be a different way of funding goods, equipment, assistive technology and home modifications.
In Home Aged Care: the new equipment scheme
Published 10 March 2023
With less than sixteen months to go until 1 July 2024, when the new home care program will begin, there is a lack of information about even the basic design of the new goods, equipment, assistive technology and home modification scheme.
Renters are feeling the heat
Published 9 March 2023
As a heatwave hits NSW, renters in poorly insulated homes are facing unbearably high indoor temperatures.
High mortgage rates, low term deposit rates: banks investigated
Published 7 March 2023
The Reserve Bank has increased the cash rate again. Two more rate hikes are expected. Mortgage rates seem to be going up automatically, but deposit rates ..., now that's another story. The ACCC to the rescue, or should that be: may potentially come to the rescue?
Make NSW Regional Seniors Travel Card permanent, say pensioners to Govt , Opposition
Published 3 March 2023
CPSA calls on the NSW Government and the NSW Opposition to commit to making the NSW Regional Seniors Travel Card permanent.
Getting ready for IHAC, the In Home Aged Care program
Published 3 March 2023
Postponed again and again, it looks as though a new home care program will start on 1 July next year. Here's the first in a series of posts outlining what the scheme will most likely look like and what its challenges will be.
Millionaires, superannuation and the pension: next federal election
Published 3 March 2023
The $3 million super cap is being attacked because ... it affects people! Ever seen a tax measure that doesn't?
IHAC is coming: In Home Aged Care
Published 1 March 2023
1 JULY 2024 just might be the day the much-delayed integration of the Commonwealth Home Support Program, the Home Care Packages Program and the Short Term Restorative Care Program takes effect. This is the first in series of twenty posts on what the new In Home Aged Care Program will and might look like.
Energy bill cuts for retirement villages, manufactured home parks: embedded networks
Published 1 March 2023
The announcement of the NSW Government's Embedded Network Action Plan could see bills get slashed for up to 150,000 customers in embedded networks.
People with disability over 65 are fighting back
Published 26 February 2023
A class action lawsuit for people with a disability who are over 65 and unable to access the NDIS is getting ready to launch.
Reserve Bank is putting paid to cheques
Published 24 February 2023
Cheques are increasingly no longer in the mail, but for the Reserve Bank of Australia it's not going fast enough.
The objective of the objective of superannuation
Published 22 February 2023
Compulsory superannuation has been around for just over thirty years without an explicit objective enshrined in legislation. The Government wants one, and it's not just a nice-to-have.