Senate debates

Monday, 19 March 2018

Questions without Notice

Pensions and Benefits

2:57 pm

Photo of Claire MooreClaire Moore (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I am listening, and isn't it also the case that the coalition government has also tried to cut $1 billion from pensioners' concessions, axed the $900 seniors supplement to self-funded retirees receiving a Commonwealth Seniors Health Card, reset the deeming rates threshold—a cut that would have seen 500,000 part-pensioners made worse off—and cut the pension to around 190,000 pensioners as part of a plan to limit overseas travel for pensioners to six weeks?

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