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Older Australians to benefit from Budget’s employment and super reforms; consultation needed on support payments, retirement income

NOTE THAT COTA HAS PUBLISHED A SEPARATE EXTENSIVE MEDIA RELEASE ON THE AGED CARE REFORM PACKAGE “RESPECT, CARE, DIGNITY” HERE Older Australians will benefit from several measures in the Federal Budget aimed at increasing workforce participation and fixing retirement incomes, Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia says, but support for vulnerable groups like renters is […]

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Changes to your superannuation insurance

The information below has been prepared by Berrill Watson lawyers and reprinted with permission. Many superannuation fund members will have valuable Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) and death insurance switched off on 1 April 2020 unless they tell their fund they want to continue the cover. If you have a superannuation account with less than

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From the desk of the Financial Counsellor: Protecting your superannuation

Protecting low balance accounts As part of the ‘Protecting Your Super’ initiative that became law earlier this year, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) now has the ability to proactively reunite inactive low balance accounts and unclaimed ATO-held super in an eligible active super account. The changes will benefit those people with multiple super accounts, including

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Older Australians welcome stronger consumer rights and end to loopholes in financial services Royal Commission report

MEDIA RELEASE  4 February 2019 Older Australians welcome emphasis on stronger consumer rights and end to loopholes in financial services Royal Commission report Australia’s leading senior’s advocacy organisation, COTA Australia, has welcomed many recommendations of the Hayne Royal Commission on misconduct in the banking, superannuation and financial services industry, but has called for stronger consumer

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PC Super report highlights need for full retirement incomes review

MEDIA RELEASE 10 January 2019 Today’s Productivity Commission inquiry final report into Australia’s superannuation system must trigger a comprehensive and independent inquiry into our whole retirement incomes system at the earliest opportunity, the leading senior’s advocacy organisation, COTA Australia, said today. The report shows that Australia’s super system is not meeting the needs of a

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2016 Victorian Gender Equality Strategy

COTA Victoria wishes to highlight the impact of gender inequality on older women and hopes to see the issues addressed in the Victorian Gender Equality Strategy. Gender equality is a fundamental human right. Women make up half the Australian population yet despite significant changes across the decades, still cannot claim equality of opportunity or life

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Victorian Gender Equality Strategy 2016 – Appendix

Gender inequality has an impact on the lives of all Australians. For older Victorians, and more specifically older women, the impacts of structural and cultural bias experienced across the life course can be far-reaching and numerous. COTA argues that implementation of the strategy will only be meaningful and bring real change if government departments and business

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