by James Coyle | Mar 7, 2019 | Video Tutorials
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...
by James Coyle | Mar 7, 2019 | Video Tutorials
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 large or...
by James Coyle | Mar 7, 2019 | Video Tutorials
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...
by James Coyle | Feb 8, 2019 | Company News
Retirement Essentials is excited to share that we have been announced as a finalist in the national Fintech Business Awards 2019. Competing as a finalist in the Fintech Start-up Business of the Year category, we eagerly await the announcement of winners for...
by James Coyle | Nov 22, 2018 | Video Tutorials
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 Pension….
by James Coyle | Nov 12, 2018 | Video Tutorials
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...
by James Coyle | Nov 5, 2018 | Video Tutorials
Hi its Greg from Retirement Essentials, your helping hand when applying for the Age Pension. I’ve been in wealth management for more than 20 years and the last few years I’ve been specialising in retirement incomes…
by James Coyle | Oct 11, 2018 | Centrelink Age Pension
Are you looking to get your Age Pension quicker and without the headache of having to go backwards and forwards with Centrelink? Retirement Essentials offers an Age Pension Application service that is simple to use and supported by specialists who are available to...
by James Coyle | Sep 12, 2018 | Centrelink Age Pension
Effective from 20 September 2018. What are the latest changes? Yesterday, Centrelink announced it’s regular changes to Age Pension rates in an attempt to keep payments in line with inflation. These new rates will be effective from 20 September, 2018. As you may know,...
by James Coyle | Sep 5, 2018 | Centrelink Age Pension
It is well known that the purpose of the Age Pension is to provide income support to older eligible Australians who need it. In many instances this is the only source of income for pensioners, or in the case of those with a larger amount of money, a supplement...
