Pensions
Sir,—lt is time there was a means test for the universal superannuitants who are still working and over 65. They pay taxation on their wages, but so does the family man with a family perhaps in high school. The recent cost-of-living rises in pensions will be very welcome to the elderly unable now to earn. They deserve it, but all round us we see men, and especially women, off to work in big cars on big wages plus universal superannuation and now they are to receive $1 rise a week on top of the big salary. They are not in need of it, and I consider the family man with no rise in family benefit has been sacrificed for these already well-off people. We shall have to pay extra costs and taxation, but no rise for us. I consider it an injustice to give a rise to those on a big income.—Yours, etc., FORGOTTEN MUM AND DAD. November 12, 1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32458, 19 November 1970, Page 16
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