Here’s a pension assets test nasty for the May budget
Published 14 April 2023
Once again a think tank has had the bright idea to wipe the budget deficit by including the family home in the assets test. Here's why it will again fail.
Would you sell to sign a forever-lease on a built-to-rent home?
Published 12 April 2023
The only way to free up home equity is to take out a reverse mortgage. Built-to-rent housing might offer an alternative solution.
Ever wanted to complain about digital platforms?
Published 5 April 2023
The Telecom Industry Ombudsman (TIO) currently takes on complaints about phone and internet services only. It wants digital platforms as well.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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]
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?
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.
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