Ask Noel: will the Seniors Supplement be restored?

By Noel Whittaker
Updated August 18 2017 - 12:09pm, first published 1:28am
Illustration: Simon Letch
Illustration: Simon Letch

My wife and I are self-funded retirees in receipt of the Seniors Supplement from Centrelink. I understand that the supplement was granted to self-funded retirees as part compensation for not qualifying to receive a Pensioner Concession Card (PCC) and its associated financial benefits. In mid-2015 it was announced that the asset level qualifying to receive a part pension was to be reduced as from July 2017, and would result in many part pensioners losing access to their PCC as from that date.

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