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When will you stop deceiving your readership. This is INDEXATION, not an inrease. In fact, their hasn't been a reall increase in age pensions in living memory. Indexation is catch up; we've already paid the increased costs and prices so all this does is bring us back up to the poverty line...

Little People? Guess you'd be a big person then. And clearly not relying on 'welfare', a term I resent. Welfare is something give free; a pension has been earned by paying tax for 60 years.

A whole $37 a fortnight between my wife and I. Gosh, we’d better not spend it all at once!

Yes, I would. IF I COULD. I've been a Rewards member for about 15 years or more but have never heard of this BUNCH. I'm an age pensioner and will take anything I can get that helps me buy food that I can't otherwise afford. Like meat. Like fish and seafood. Like eggs.

I really resent it when you, and other people, refer to being on a pension as 'welfare.' It's not welfare. It's not a freebie. I have paid far more in tax over the last 60 years since I started work at the age of 16 than I will ever get back in the pension. My pension is the return on the...

I have to say that had I known in 1969 when I emigrated what Australia was going to be like in 2022 I would never have come. Oz was one of the best places on earth then, even if you weren't rich. But today you have to be wealthy to survive, otherwise you're doomed to live in poverty. Back then...

I don’t understand the point of the article. The Australian Age Pension is set by legislation, indexed for inflation and hasn’t changed except for the indexed increases in living memory. Certainly we are still below the poverty line, but none of the factors mentioned in the article have any...

In other words, nothing extra for pensioners. Indexation is enshrined in legislation and the biannual increase simply compensates us for the increase in costs that have gone before. Nobody can remember when there was last a REAL increase in pensions. So it still keeps us below the poverty line...

How deceitful is this Labor government, and your report colludes with them in their deceit by simply reiterating their propaganda. 1. The Age Pension is NOT effing welfare. It is the return on the investment we have made by paying our taxes for 50+ years. It's our entitlement and our right! 2...