Is access to cash and cheques about to be finished?
Published 3 April 2023
Digital payments are now common. The RBA is helping banks to get rid of cheques. Access to cash is getting more difficult as ATMs disappear.
Why we think block-funding will continue for certain providers from 1 July 2024
Published 31 March 2023
CPSA would like to explain why it thinks that certain types of providers will continue to be block-funded after 1 July 2024.
Flu-complacency at dangerous levels in Australia
Published 31 March 2023
The Australian Attitudes to Influenza Index suggests that Australians are underestimating the seriousness of flu: half of people surveyed.
The face of poverty in Australia
Published 28 March 2023
According to new research, people who receive income support payments and renters are much more likely to be living below the poverty line.
Will your CHSP provider still be there come July next year?
Published 28 March 2023
Trying to adapt to the new IHAC program could prove difficult for many CHSP providers. Being cherry-picked for a merger with a HCP provider may be the best way to stay afloat.
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 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. [more]
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
Can’t beat them, join them!
Published 20 March 2023
The home aged care industry is in turmoil. CHSP providers are concerned about what will happen in just over a year. Being taken over might be a good thing.
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. [more]
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. [more]
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. [more]
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.
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