Changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule mean that for many MBS items the MBS fee will go up or down. This will then change the gap between the MBS fee and the medical specialist’s fee. Who will be affected?
The Australian Government and the federal Department of Health have copped heavy criticism over the nursing home vaccine roll-out. Is it justified?
Existing public dental schemes need greater funding to be turned into entitlement schemes so anyone at any age can receive the dental care they need.
Setting up an SMSF and running it is easy compared with planning what will happen with the SMSF if the ‘expert’ trustee/member dies or becomes legally incapacitated before the ‘inexpert’ trustee member.
More than a decade of reform is driving financial advisers out of an industry know for its fat commissions and contempt for its customers. Do we worry or celebrate, or something in between?
Superannuants all rejoice for the reduction in withdrawal rates reduction rules for another financial year.
The aged care industry is addicted to operating under a veil of secrecy, viewing with suspicion initiatives to get important consumer information out into the open. The problem is the Government seems to agree with the industry as the Government’s response to Royal Commission recommendations seem to indicate.
Caravan parks morph into residential parks into manufactured home estates into land lease communities. Gentrification is increasingly pushing out low-income older Australians.
Minimum accessibility standards have been agreed to by federal, state and territory building ministers. If enforced by state governments this will mean all new houses will have to meet seven minimum accessibility standards.
Loyalty to brands seems to mean very little in this day and age. As consumer advocate CHOICE found, older Telstra customers showed great levels of loyalty to Telstra but instead of rewarding this behaviour, Telstra was found to be overselling to older people.
The Federal opposition's reply to the Government's budget included the establishment of a $10 billion social housing fund that would be used to build tens of thousands of social housing properties.
CPSA's response to the 2021 Budget.
CPSA's response to important announcements made as part of Budget 2021 regarding older people.
Usually, aged care announcements of tens of thousand of new Home Care Packages are full of smoke and mirror, and Budget 2021 is no different.
The imagination of bureaucrats can make for great announcements but it doesn't address current issues with the Home Care Packages waiting list.
Inheritances, lottery and lotto winnings and other financial windfalls can now be put into super even if you’re over 65 and not working with abolition of the work test from 1July 2022 if legislation passes in time.
The Pension Loans Scheme will be offering lump sum loans against your home, but borrower beware!
Don't expect housing affordability to improve any time soon as the Budget announces more demand-driven schemes without attempting to increase housing supply.
What could be wrong with everyone having only one super account in a high-performing fund bound to act in its members’ best financial interests? Plenty, it seems.