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Video: What are personal assets?

Video: What are personal assets?

  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...

Video: What are personal assets?

Is my home counted as an asset?

Q&A: Is my home counted as an asset? 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...

Video: What are personal assets?

Is my account based pension counted as income or asset?

Q&A: Is my account based pension counted as income or asset? 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...

Video: What are personal assets?

Common Age Pension Application Mistakes

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 Pension....