Pensions

I'm disgusted......the pensioners have to keep waiting, and waiting, for reviews, government decisions to raise the amount of the pension. But the world starts going into recession, and all of a sudden there is money to give to "working families" and although my children come into that "working families" scenario, I am beginning to hate that phrase.
Pensioners were once working families (without the electronic devices of today) and we worked bloody hard for our wages, and brought up families.
Now many many of us are living below the poverty line.
Working families have at least one pay if not two coming in each week. Interest rates have gone to the lowest in about 50 years, and still they have to be looked after by the government.
At the expense of genuine pensioners, who have all the same bills, but have to exist on $255 per week.
Does anyone really care?

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Does anyone really care?



Not while there are more votes to be had from the WFs of this country than there are from the pensioners.



Its all a matter of self interest as far as the pollies are concerned, its only when they want to make a big show of how generous they are that they even consider the pensioner. Seem to forget that the millions that they gaily hand out, is not their money, but what they squeezed out of every Aussie over the years.



Keep your chin up mate.

In W.A. pensioners were asked to fill in a Seniors Card application form to get the $100.00 that the Labor Govt. promised some months ago. Questions like name, address, age,sex, bank acount details, pension card number, etc plus whether or not you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (why --would you get more if you were?). They then passed on the details you had given them to Salmat- A Marketing Firm- who my cousin who works for them assures me they will use these details to the fullest of their capabilities.

How dare the Senior Card Centre pass on private details and how much were Salmat paying them to do so. I believe Salmat has rung thousands of seniors to varify their details presumably for marketing purposes.

So beware before you give your details to National Senior Associations because the privacy act doesnt seem to apply to them.

Tessata I believe it wrong also that they were actually canvassing for details.

Everyone should have been told where it was going and for what purpose exactly.

If anyone gives detail for anything they do not expect them to be sold for

other purposes.

I love joining places and receiving e-mails but have stopped doing this now as

we have a new addy. with this wireless broadband and I would like it to

stay relatively spam free as my last dial-up was becoming like a train station with

so much rubbish. yes we have a "watcher" but the boxes were spilling over nonetheless.

Phyl.

Hi everyone ....hat a few problems with the computer could'nd get in ... anyway what I was doing is I send the addy to all my friends from the ... Government .. they will send them on to there friends



http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm



maybe it wont to much good but I think if people send mail to Mr Rudd...and fill is dam mail box full maybe one of them will have a look at the mail....also thought send to channel 9 / 7 / 10... I think the more one screams the more maybe someone will here ..radio station helps as well...news papers... they always like news...the unforgotten slave in our society....how work 50 yrs payed Taxes... sorry am tick of.....



This is something that not everyone may know....people that have migrated to Australia...say in the 1960... and they work in there Country of Birth for 12 yrs. or so ..they will receive a part pension from there country ( lets say Germany )...all they have to do is fill out there papers and they will receive the pension.. to how many yrs they work ... it dose matter how much they have ... as there country of birth ..Say's they have paid Taxes so they are entitled to the part pension...



Now the tricky part is...they work in Australian say 40 yrs.... are Australian citizens...so what the Australian Government is doing they at the Pension they receive from there Counrty of birth...so the australian Government has won again...by not paying full Pension to People that also have work 40 yrs in this Country... I can say there are a lot of them ...anyway have a great day all God Bless....

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