A Service Pension is an age-based, means tested pension like the Age Pension but paid to veterans, their partners widows or widowers.
Set out below are all SuperGuide articles that relate to Age Pension.
What are the Age Pension residency rules?
There are specific residency requirements that you must meet to be eligible to receive the Age Pension from the Australian government.
Age Pension deeming rates cut, at last
The Federal Government has finally bowed to pressure to cut pension deeming rates but stopped short of passing on the full cut in official interest rates.
‘Pension tax’ deemed unfair
As official interest rates drop to a record low of 1%, Age Pensioners who depend on income from cash investments face a double whammy. Not only do they receive less income from their bank deposits as interest rates fall, but they also risk losing some pension because they are deemed to earn more than they do.
Means test treatment of lifetime annuities from 1 July 2019
From 1 July 2019 changes to the means test treatment of lifetime annuities for the purposes of determining Age Pension entitlements will come into force.
Age Pension: Is it alleviating poverty?
A recent CEPAR report examined the key design features of Australia’s Age Pension, how well it serve its objectives, and who is a typical age pensioner.
Age Pension changes costs pensioners now and increases government costs in the long term
In this article Jim Bonham explores the long-term impact of the January 2017 Age Pension changes, for both retirees and for future federal government budgets.
Age Pension changes make retirees with more savings worse off in short-term
Doubling the effect of the Age Pension taper rate means that couples are taxed 150% for super savings between $400,000 and $800,000.
Age Pension changes unfair to retirees with $400k to $1m in super
SuperGuide has invited advocacy group, Save Our Super, to highlight the immediate and long-term implications of the federal government’s latest changes to super and the Age Pension.
