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31/12/18

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Originally posted by picastoc ↑

Power (gas and electricity = $2,000
Water = $1,200
Council Rates + $1,500
Car insurance, petrol and registration = $1,700
RACV = $100
Insurances $500
Clothes $2,000
Telephone = $360
Doctor = $400
Dentist = $800
Food = $14,000
Gifts = $1,000
Internet, landline =1,300
Garden, mowing = $1,000
Entertainment (films, magazines/newspapers, etc)= $400
Holiday = $3,000
Hairdresser = $700
Eating Out/Takeaway = $1,500
Miscellaneous = $1,500

$32,000 pa approx.
Max. Aged Pension$35,916.40.

The Aged Pension is sufficient for people to live on - see above.

Tell me where I have made any errors.

I have used real figures in the example above, including an additional $1,500 for miscellaneous.
I am still left with almost $4,000 pa over and above as spare change.

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Don't forget pensoner's senior &confessional cards that entitled them to almost everything from discount to free services like -
-no stamp duty for car registrations;
-discount on water &council rates
-$2.50 on all public transport per day
-discount on medicine
-bulk bill for most doctor/medical services.

Plus no need to spend $2000 on clothes as these items are pretty cheap these days.

Even the argument is that SOME of them had worked hard and paid tax in the past, I am sure most of them hadn't paid more than $400 per week in taxes in today's value

What about those hadn't contributed a cent in taxes during their working ages.
Should they too get the same amount of pension in their retirement age, or should there be a two tiered system ?
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