As it's more than 100 days now, it has been suggested that a new thread was needed. The current govt has been breaking promises and telling lies at a rate so fast it's hard to keep up.
This below is worrying, "independent" pffft, as if your own doctor is somehow what? biased, it's ridiculous. So far there is talk of only including people under a certain age 30-35, for now. Remember that if your injured in a car, injured at work or get ill, you too might need to go on the DSP. They have done a similar think in the UK with devastating consequences.
and this is the 2nd time recently where the Govt has referred to work as welfare???? So when you go to work tomorrow (or tuesday), just remember that's welfare.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-20/disability-pensioners-may-be-reassessed-kevin-andrews/5400598
Independent doctors could be called in to reassess disability pensioners, Federal Government says
The Federal Government is considering using independent doctors to examine disability pensioners and assess whether they should continue to receive payments.
Currently family doctors provide reports supporting claims for the Disability Support Pension (DSP).
But Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews is considering a measure that would see independent doctors reassess eligibility.
"We are concerned that where people can work, the best form of welfare is work," Mr Andrews said at a press conference.
ref :
“Australia is unusual in not encouraging its citizens to use income streams with longevity protection in retirement.”
The problem is that there are a number of regulatory barriers in the way of this.
Most of the observations in the interim report are “motherhood” statements, but the ones about how Australians are treated in saving for retirement and what happens once they get there are pointed and sharp.
Let’s hope they survive into the final recommendations, and then the government takes some notice of them.
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Sounds like a smoke and daggers idea for a plan so the finance regulatory bodies can 'allow' future Govt to legislate some more BS.....resulting in funded retirees having to pass on most, if not all of their interest components e.g. made in their super fund/s and/or share/investment portfolios to the bloodsuckers in Govt..............
..........'longevity protection? !!! amazing the false impact-addition of the word 'PROTECTION' gives a term
Well......we'll just wait for a graph then shall we?
Joe Hockey has threatened to bypass the Senate and cut government programs if the Senate continues to blocks the Government’s key Budget savings measures.......
Budget measures still facing blockage include:
- The $7 Medicare co-payment and the $5 increase in a co-payment for medicines subsidies by the pharmaceutical benefits scheme.
- Increasing the indexation in the aged pension to 70 for those born after 1966.
- Some cuts to family tax benefits.
- The repeal of personal income tax cuts legislated by the former government but then deferred.
- Spending “paid for” by the mining tax, including the proposed repeal of the low income superannuation bonus and the low income support bonus.
- The proposed repeal of the schoolkids bonus.
- Re-indexation of fuel excise.
- Denying most job-seekers under 30 unemployment benefits for six months.
from comments .....
"how dare those idiotic voters put in anyone other than the party duopoly to do the corporate bidding."
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/07/hockey-threatens-to-bypass-senate-on-budget/
