We can already earn $6500 a year legislated - what is going on?
Oh dear Julia is so desperate ? We already have the ability to earn the $6500 in Pension Work Act or whatever it was called when it went through.
$500 a fortnight of which first $250 didn't count.
250x26 = $6500.
So not that new and apart from all that only 30,000 actually work and they should know, and why is that one wonders? Because you cant get a bloody job that's why - maybe those few have work for relatives who own the business who knows but we do know that many over 50's cant get a job and haven't been able to for years - been there done that is what many of us say.
Plus there is already an Age Discrimination Act 2004 which is not being policed by the Commissioner as if it were ads for workers would like the UK say 'up to 65' and not up to 35 etc as they mainly do. I would be more impressed if instead of shelling out even more money on yet another public servant - she said that the current commissioner would actually be made to do her job for once in her life and act or ACCC or anyone on the public teat.
[color=red][quote]PENSIONERS would be able to earn up to $6500 a year and keep their full benefit under a relaxation of the pension Work Bonus to be announced by Julia Gillard today.
In a pitch for the grey vote, the Prime Minister will unveil the changes, worth $94 million, saying they would be worth up to $100 a fortnight extra for 30,000 pensioners.[/quote][/color]
[b]And the only way to get that bit extra is to vote for the Liberal party who will pay an employer to put you on the payroll. Because this will work - whereas the Labor proposal has not and wont as they talk and promise but have shown this lot cant do the job without making a mess of it and wasting more money which is again being proposed in putting on another person to police the discrimination act when one is already being paid to do so. Certainly paying the employers in the last recession we had to have under Keating worked [/b]
[color=blue][quote]Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has announced payments of up to $3250 for businesses that employ a worker aged over 50, who receives a government benefit.
The senior employment incentive payment would begin in mid-2011 under a coalition government, he said.
"I think that older people are an asset, and I want them to be an economic asset as well as a social and cultural asset," he told reporters in Brisbane.[/quote][/color]
Added a poll for a bit of guidance - and fun too to see how it will pan out compared with those published
Supposedly, we would be able to earn the income in a short period of time, instead of it being allowed at a small proportion per week or fortnight. Work when work is available, for those who have the skills to be room cleaners in motels, during holiday times, as well as those who have the skills to prepare tax returns at the end of the financial year and utilising all other skills you may have acquired. I have voted as undecided still. I have to still weigh what will benefit myself, my children and Australia.