SCOA Australia President of SCOA Australia steps down In early January, Annette Barbetti informed SCOA Australia’s National Committee that she would be stepping down from her role as the President of SCOA Australia and as a member of the National Committee, due to a number of recurring health issues. Annette’s resignation was effective immediately. Stalwart doesn’t begin … Read more
SCOA Australia today lodged its 2018/19 pre-Budget submission with recommendations in the areas of Commonwealth superannuation pension indexation and taxation, the taper rate for the age pension income test, the ability of retirees aged over 65 to transfer funds into their superannuation fund without having to satisfy any work test; the PBS Safety Net Limits, … Read more
The indexation graph has been updated to the end of the September 2017 Quarter. Click here to see the graph. Click here to try our indexation tool. Canberra, 11 December 2017.
On 29 November 2017, the Canberra Times published an article by their correspondent Ross Gittins about the cost-of-living pinch on wage earners. In a letter to the editor, published in The Canberra Times today, the National President of ACPSRO, Richard Griffiths, explained that wage earners are now experiencing the same cost-of-living pinch that retirees and many … Read more
A 7 November 2017 article in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) about changes being made to the CPI, which will have the effect of further reducing the CPI, was responded to by an ACPSRO letter to the AFR’s Editor on 9 November 2017. That, in turn, appeared to trigger an article in the Canberra Times written by their Economics … Read more
As part of its push to demonstrate the inadequacy of the CPI to reflect real costs of living for all sectors of the community, ACPSRO wrote to the Minister for Finance on 12 September 2017, as the minister responsible for the Australian Bureau of Statistics, recommending that while capturing statistics that measure the CPI, ie … Read more
SCOA Australia has lodged submissions to a number of inquiries by the Senate Economics Legislation Committee into recently introduced superannuation legislation. SCOA has also commented on an inquiry by the Senate Finance and Public Administration Reference Committee’s inquiry into digital delivery of government services. Click here to read SCOA’s submissions. Click here to for more … Read more
SCOA Australia will hold its first Annual General Meeting (AGM) as one national organisation. The AGM will be held in Canberra on Tuesday 26 September 2017 at 10.30 am at the Ainslie Football Club. Click here to read the relevant documentation and see who has nominated for election to the new National Committee that will … Read more
We have received the following helpful hints for claiming your SCOA Australia membership fees if you use MyGov/My Tax online platform to lodge your tax return. The solution is to go to Section 3 (Personalised return) and tick the box for “other deductions” and then go to Section 4, “locate other deductions”, and enter SCOA … Read more
On 10 August 2017, the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs released its report into the Social Services Legislation Amendment (Ending Carbon Tax Compensation) Bill 2017 (Provisions). The Senate Committee decided to recommend that this Bill be passed, even though most of the submissions to the inquiry (including SCOA’s) had recommended otherwise. Click here to … Read more