“While there is a lot of good in this year’s Budget, people who rely on the dole miss out once again. The Supplementary Allowance announced only amounts to a mere $4 a week. CPSA calls for the gap between income support payments to be closed.”, said CPSA’s Policy Coordinator Paul Versteege.

CPSA was never among those who predicted that without the implementation of the Productivity Commission’s funding recommendations the aged care system would fall over.

CPSA is very proud of the outcome of its No Flogging of the Family Home for a Nursing Home campaign.

AGED care reform measures announced on 20 April are so far removed from the Productivity’s Commission recommendations that the Commission might as well not have bothered.

LATER this month, pensioners and retirees on a Commonwealth Seniors Health Card (CSHC) will receive lump sum payments designed to cover the costs associated with the carbon tax.