Hi, it’s Greg from Retirement Essentials, your helping hand when applying for the age pension. Personal assets are the contents of your home, your caravans, cars trailers and the like. Importantly it does not include your family home. Centrelink will assume...
Hi, it’s Greg from Retirement Essentials, your helping hand when applying for the age pension. Generally speaking your home is exempt from the assets test. There are some exceptions for example if you have a very large or income producing property. If you are...
Hi, it’s Greg from Retirement Essentials, your helping hand when applying for the age pension. An account based pension is also known an as ‘allocated’ pension and it’s a regular income stream drawn from the money you’ve accumulated in...
Hi, it’s Greg here from Retirement Essentials. The Age Pension for most people is the foundation layer of their retirement income. 7/10 people currently and that is forecast to continue will be eligible for a full or part Age...
There are two really common mistakes that people make when applying for the Age Pension. The first common mistakes people make is as a couple, assuming that both members of the couple have to be of Age Pension age before they can apply for the Age...
A joint study conducted by the National Seniors Australia (NSA) and Retirement Essentials, has confirmed that applying for the Age Pension is a fraught experience for many older Australians. According to Retirement Essentials founder and CEO Paul Rogan, the report...
