Items Tagged With "Pensioners"
Pensions to increase on 20 March (News)
Around four million Australians will receive an increase in their pensions and other income support payments from 20 March 2010, through indexation.
Pension payments will increase by $29.20 a fortnight for singles on the maximum rate, and $44.00 a fortnight for couples combined on the maximum rate.
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Around four million Australians will receive an increase in their pensions and other income support payments from 20 March 2010, through indexation.
Pension payments will increase by $29.20 a fortnight for singles on the maximum rate, and $44.00 a fortnight for couples combined on the maximum rate.
Following these increases, total pension payments for those on the maximum rate, including the base rate and pension supplement, will be:
Funding for independent social security info (News)
The Rudd Government will provide $65,000 to the Welfare Rights Centre to keep families, pensioners and other income support recipients informed of their rights and obligations when accessing government payments.
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The Australian Government will provide $65,000 to the Welfare Rights Centre in New South Wales to keep families, pensioners and other income support recipients informed of their rights and obligations when accessing government payments.
The new funding will help employ a researcher to update and edit the Online Independent Social Security Handbook and provide the information free of charge on the Welfare Rights Centre website, making it more accessible. Currently it is accessed through a subscription fee.
Abbott refuses climate change science (News)
Mr Abbott cannot claim to be a 'fair dinkum environmentalist' if he does not accept that climate change is real; the evidence is clear that the globe is warming and that human activity is contributing to this.
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With just 20 days to go to unveil a climate change policy, the time has come for Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to accept the climate change science.
Mr Abbott cannot claim to be a 'fair dinkum environmentalist' if he does not accept that climate change is real.
The evidence is clear that the globe is warming and that human activity is contributing to this.
At the end of Australia's second hottest year on record and the hottest decade in Australian history, Mr Abbott still doubts the existence of climate change.
Libs get facts wrong on climate (News)
The Liberals continues to mislead the Australian people and get the facts wrong, with front benchers Greg Hunt and Bronwyn Bishop today repeating a range of climate change clangers.
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With just 21 days left to unveil a climate change policy, the Liberal Party continues to mislead the Australian people and get the facts wrong.
Liberal front benchers Greg Hunt and Bronwyn Bishop today repeated a range of climate change clangers.
In an interview on Sky News, Mr Hunt said the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme would cost families $1100 per year. Ms Bishop said the same thing in an opinion piece on The Punch today.
Compensation for pensioners at risk (News)
Under the Rudd Government's CPRS, all pensioners and seniors will on average be fully compensated for the costs of acting on climate change. The Government has called on Tony Abbott to match that guarantee under any alternative Liberal climate change policy.
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The Government has today called on Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to guarantee pensioners and seniors will be fully compensated under any alternative Liberal Party climate change policy.
Under the Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, all pensioners and seniors will on average be fully compensated for the costs of acting on climate change.
Mr Abbott has indicated he will provide a detailed and fully costed climate change policy by the time Parliament resumes in February.
That is just 21 days away.
