For older people who are in housing stress and in need of aged care services, they have two disparate systems – both confusing individually, let alone together – to navigate,…
Australian employers are failing to support and engage older workers which is costing them, according to a new study.Researchers at the University of South Australia …
Growing numbers of pensioners in private rental accommodation are using much of their income to pay for housing, writes Alan Morris, author and chair professor at University…
Welfare peak body, the Australian Council of Social Service has called on the Federal Parliament to reject the plan to lower the indexation of pensions and instead focus…
Older people are better off living in Albania than Australia when it comes to their incomes, a new global report has revealed.
The Global Age Watch Index 2014 was released…
More jobless Australians in their 50s and 60s are seeking the Newstart allowance, new figures out of the Department of Human Services have shown.
According to the figures,…
Australia’s peak body for community services and the welfare sector has expressed concerns over the small rise to income support payments, such as Newstart and…