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Wednesday 22 January 2014
A Clarence valley voice in a wider forum
Clarence valley resident Charles Lincoln hold strong views on how the Abbott government regards pensioners. Mr Lincoln voiced his opinion in a contribution to the letters section of The Sun Herald (January 19).
Pension fears
We have returned the Conservatives to power and as pensioners it
appears that we may have done the wrong thing, as we now find that this
government has openly stated that the pensioners are rorting the system
with regards to concessional rebates on council rates (''Retirees furious over rate rort claim'', January 12).
This concession has not been raised with regards to the cost of living adjustments for seven decades.
So if this concessional rebate is a rort, in the eyes of the
Federal Government, does it mean that all of the other pensioner
concessions such as chemist prescriptions, doctor visits, transport and
many more are also rorts?
Pensioners and all self-funded retirees must watch closely to
make sure that the concessions that they have at present are not
further eroded to improve the bottom line of the government, because
increases in pensions are only 28 per cent of the average wage and each
time that the CPI is increased we get further behind.
" We have returned the Conservatives to power and as pensioners it appears that we may have done the wrong thing,..."
ReplyDeleteFirst prize..Understatement of the year.