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I'd think it is not "so many" but very few (as a percentage of the total) who actually do this. Your last paragraph made me laugh. Here are YOU, working out how to weasel a part pension by gifting and manipulating things and then you ask why this is so. You are singing the praises of such...

If you have $800K invested I'm pretty confident that the government is NOT going to hand you a full pension. I think your figures are wrong. You can give properties to your kids but then you rely on their goodwill in looking after you and there is a five year time when anything given will still...

I would not agree that "the real benefit of the aged pension" is the entitlements, transport costs and council rates discount but I agree that it is a nice benefit to be able to get the entitlements in pharmaceuticals, especially as people age. My parents were not eligible for any pension at...

My brother has been on a disability pension for nearly 30 years. He can garden and surf but cannot work due to his back :rolleyes:. What a crock? And he has the gall to tell my brother (five kids, non-working wife) that he needs to slow down, not work so hard, take it easy and chill out a bit...

This last point seems so sensible. Why throw something out that is good enough to eat. I wonder who decides what can be given away and what must hit the rubbish bins? We know someone who caters for high end functions. Nothing is given away. They are extremely conscious of temperatures and...