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snap1946 · Senior Member

pension

gordon_adl · Senior Member

Just wondering, for those on a pension, has you noticed any increases with prices that can be directly related to the carbon tax? I'm not looking for this to turn into a political debate. Just curious is all. If carbon tax is the wrong term then whatever the official term for it is, has it affected you being on the road.

GaryKelly · Guru

My single pension increased by about $17 a fortnight. I thought it was supposed to be $35. Maybe it started on the second week between pays. All very confusing.

brickies · Guru

The penison rise starts on march 20th , You may have got the carbon tax increase , And I haven't notice any impact from carbon tax

Happywanderer · The Master

I didn't get the rise yesterday. It says online 35.80. When I check my next pay for the 27th, it is part thereof as it starts 20th March which is half way through a pay period.
Not sure how anyone has already go it.

Hylda&Jon · Guru

Well, most of mine will be used to cover the electricity bills which, if I read the letter that we just received this week correctly, will be going up over $1 a day in a month or so. Close to $400 a year is a fair bit off anyones pension.

-- Edited by Hylda&Jon on Friday 15th of March 2013 08:39:14 AM

snap1946 · Senior Member

This is Roshelle from the Department of Human Services. Thank you so much for your research and response!

If you receive an income support payment or pension such as Age Pension or Carer Payment, the Clean Energy Supplement will be added to your regular payments from 22 March 2013. Its automatic so theres no need to apply or contact us.

It will be paid with your regular fortnightly payment for customers who receive the Pension Supplement fortnightly. Commonwealth Seniors Health Card holders who receive Seniors Supplement and pensioners who have elected to receive the Pension Supplement on a quarterly basis will be paid the Clean Energy Supplement quarterly in arrears with your regular payment from 24 June 2013.

The rate of Clean Energy Supplement is $13.50 per fortnight for single pensioners and $10.20 for each eligible member of a couple.

For more information on the Clean Energy Supplement, go to

http://humanservices.gov.au/householdassistance

ADMIN EDIT - Link to political comment removed to comply with ToU

Hope this helps!
Roshelle

tezza · Senior Member

Aren't we lucky to live in a country that is able to subsidise our retirement even if it is not to the level we would like!

jules47 · The Happy Helper

We sure are tezza - I appreciate what I get!!! smile smile

aussietraveller · Guru

Just checked my pension payment today no increase suppose I will have to wait another fortnight and keep my fingers crossed.

Comebak-Wilson · Veteran Member

The carbon is so thin it wont make a 2nd copy which taxes my typewriter.

Scotty01 · Senior Member

I do not qualify for an Age Pension till next year, I chose to sell my business and home etc to live on the road. I admit i may be a bit better off than a lot of people on here but I am no millionare. I went to centreLink to apply for a healthcare card, that was all I wanted as medication costs me quite a bit, I walked away with a Card and New Start payments of roughly $500 per f/n. Dam sight more than I expected to get. As I have back knee and heart problems I have an exemption from the seeking employment stuff. I feel privilaged that I live in a country that sees fit to subsidise my retirement and do not winge about what I recieve. Must admit I get a bit peed off at what Illegal Boaties get handed but thats life and we elected the bastards! I am not having a go at anyone !!!! so please dont take it as that!!!

Happywanderer · The Master

Did you see the ACA story last night. A chap almost crippled with MS, can only get round in a disability scooter or very difficult with a walking stick. He was declined a pension of any sort but they gave him a card to get cheap fares for public transport. He can't even get on to public transport.
Since the ACA got involved it is now being investigate.
It was so sad. Seems they make up their own rules as they go.

barina · Guru

Happywanderer wrote:
Did you see the ACA story last night. A chap almost crippled with MS, can only get round in a disability scooter or very difficult with a walking stick. He was declined a pension of any sort but they gave him a card to get cheap fares for public transport. He can't even get on to public transport.
Since the ACA got involved it is now being investigate.
It was so sad. Seems they make up their own rules as they go.

That was so sad...maybe it depends who you get at the counter or what suburb / town centrelink you go to...who can figure..

barina · Guru

Scotty01 wrote:
I do not qualify for an Age Pension till next year, I chose to sell my business and home etc to live on the road. I admit i may be a bit better off than a lot of people on here but I am no millionare. I went to centreLink to apply for a healthcare card, that was all I wanted as medication costs me quite a bit, I walked away with a Card and New Start payments of roughly $500 per f/n. Dam sight more than I expected to get. As I have back knee and heart problems I have an exemption from the seeking employment stuff. I feel privilaged that I live in a country that sees fit to subsidise my retirement and do not winge about what I recieve. Must admit I get a bit peed off at what Illegal Boaties get handed but thats life and we elected the bastards! I am not having a go at anyone !!!! so please dont take it as that!!!

Well done I am curious as to which state you are in??

Scotty01 · Senior Member

Barina: I am in Sth Aust.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Pension entitlements aught to be the same accross the whole country... there has to be some mistake with the chap on ACA...?

Robbiebago · Veteran Member

I missed the ACA episode about the disabled fellow being denied a disability pension. The govt is making changes to make it harder to get a disabled pension. (Personally I think they should be cracking down on people who already have it that are not really disabled but that's another topic!)

I applied for a disabilty pension about this time lsat year. I am 53 and was born profoundly deaf with less than 10% hearing in each ear. I have always not had any form of govt assistant for my disabiliy other than my speech therapy. (My mother has since died but I dooubt she could afford to have me do speech therapy for 8 years without some assistance) but other than that, she has always insisted that I learn to cope in a hearing world. No hearing aids were suitable for my hearing loss anyway. So I went to normal public schools in normal classes. I did 'teach' the teachers that they couldn't talk whilst wrting on the blackboard nor to talk while walking around the class. Then when I left school (by the way I came in the top 10% of the state inspite some principals doubting that I would cope and they wanted me in the handicapped class), Sure there were a few jobs I couldn't apply for such as being a receptionist or other jobs that require listening on a phone. (I am clever, but I haven't figured out how to lip read on a phone yet!) Anyway you get the drift... I married and ran our family business alongside my husband for 30 odd years, til we closed it down last year due to finances.

Since my husband was too young to apply for a pension and we had been unable to sell the business, we thought for the first time of seeking a disabled pension for me. Centrelink were most unhelpful. It took 4 months to convince them. They kept on saying that I am not deaf enough! I lost all my hearing in my right ear due to an operation so I only had the one ear... I mean...how deaf do I have to be. Just because I cope very well because I have good lip reading skills etc that this penalises me now. They tried to say that I should have been in their system 50 years ago! Oh gee. Maybe I should have been bludging all this time instead of using what abilities I have to cope.

Stupid, stupid system.

BTW I was granted a full disabilty pension eventually due to some interaction on our behalf at a different Centrelink due to luck in finding a sympathic person who was willing to sort this out for us. Something about an appeals tribunal!

"Whew!"

Michelle

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Scotty01 · Senior Member

Right or wrong, It depends on just who your consultant is at centrelink. Some of them are there only to get a paypacket, in my case I got lucky that I got a nice lady that did everything possible to assist me. The bigest part is YOUR attutude to them, go in there on the attach and they kick back, remember they hold the big key. The old saying: treat others as yo would like to be treated!