After years of campaigning and despite everyone agreeing a meaningful increase to Newstart, now called Jobseeker, was needed urgently, the Australian Government has come up with a miserly increase of $50 a fortnight.
Friday 26 February is when the Aged Care Royal Commission finally ends, more than two years after it started. The Department of Health's responses to Counsel Assisting's recommendations to the two Commissioners seem to indicate disagreement between the Commission and the Government.
Another nursing home is facing forced closure by the regulator, but the home is not part of a nursing home chain. It's stand-alone. 73 residents have to find something somewhere else.
An annual property tax proposed by the NSW Government would place an unsupportable burden on many households which now struggle to cover the cost of utilities and council rates, writes contributor Frances McMahon.
THE 'Out and About Vouchers' that were announced in the November 2020 NSW state budget have been renamed Dine and discover NSW vouchers, and they are available in paper form, says the Minister.
ROGER is a self-funded retiree who took exception to last week’s 'Crying poor and being poor: assistance for retirees' item. He wrote a response.
New aged care standards came in just before the Royal Commission started, but the compliance results published by the Productivity Commission are curious, to say the least.
Apparently the Reserve Bank is being flooded with mail from retirees who can't see why the Governor doesn't put up the interest rates on their term deposits. Talk is of emergency measures. But what about the retirees who are not self-funded and who do not have anything to invest?
New rules make it easier for a retirement village resident to sell up if and when they need to move into a nursing home.
Yes, is the answer. But, is the answer. Yes, but it will be by very little.
In the debate about contributions, what's forgotten is what, and especially how, all these saved contributions are going to fund your retirement. Why don't super funds offer pension plans while people are working and accumulating savings?
Does choosing your own care worker sound like a good idea? It might be, but be careful of the pitfalls.
NSW regional seniors will be wasting no time to get this $250 freebie!
The Australian Government's denials that Age Pensioners would not be forced onto the Cashless Welfare/Debit Card have proven to be untrue. Age Pensioners in the Cape York area can now be forced onto the Card and probably will be. This sets an alarming precedent for Age Pensioners throughout Australia.
Free to nursing homes, free to residents, but medication reviews for new residents are only conducted twenty per cent of the time.
The federal Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, let rip during Question Time recently, suggesting Robodebt was back, with a focus on age pensioners. Perhaps it's not quite that bad, but Automation of Income Streams reviews are not for the faint-hearted.
Looking for people with vivid memories of Waterloo in the 1960 and 1970s.
Recently, the NSW regulator introduced new rules about what pricing information funeral directors must publish online and display in their office. The requirement is for extensive pricing information as well as the price of the cheapest funeral package they offer. Funeral directors in Broken Hill, Bathurst, Tamworth, Dubbo and Wagga Wagga are dragging the chain, and those are towns we checked.
Single older women without children face economic insecurity, University of Sydney Business School research has found.
Giving power of attorney to anyone means that you deeply trust that person. Queensland and Victoria ban paid carers from having power of attorney over the person they care for.