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Post by Banker on Apr 26, 2012 9:32:12 GMT 7
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Post by carvets on May 11, 2012 12:29:36 GMT 7
Just before this increase my rent went up $40/week,....yes $40 . My housemate ( also on DSP ) and i were both devastated. but i told him,...Hey, there will be an increase in the pension soon and that will offset the rise a little. So little in fact is laughable. So laughable i nearly cried. My rent goes up, electricity, food etc etc , and we get $6.70 a fortnight. Sigh !
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Post by latindancer on May 11, 2012 13:38:26 GMT 7
Yes, those comments at the bottom are very revealing. I'm with the lady who said :
"Why is the question just aimed at the single pension?
Married people are severely discriminated against just by being married. Marriage "costs" a couple $186.00 per fortnight from the single rate, around 25%, because they are married. Nearly FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS a year.
Each individual married pensioner is still an individual who has individually become entitled to a pension. So, why doesn't each individual person who is one of a married couple be entitled to their individual entitlement?
The "argument" is that old belief that two can live as cheaply as one. Well try telling that to the supermarket, or the coffee shop, or the shoe shop or the health insurance fund, or your mortgagee and ask for a 25% discount because you are married!!!
Sure there are savings by living together in the form of rates, electricity and gas, but, they don't add up to anything like $5,000 per annum.
I am most grateful for the Age pension, most grateful, but, by discriminating against marriage it goes against everything that this society holds dearest.
And to answer the question, no, I do not think that the single pension is enough, but, I certainly think that the combined married pension is grossly unfair by comparison".
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