Pensions
Sir,—A short time ago you went to considerable trouble to explain certain points about universal superannuation. “Forgotten Mum and Dad" seem to have missed this. A person receiving universal superannuation, and working, and over 65, has to pay income tax, so the $1 increase, in my case, was about 72 cents, and I am an elderly man doing an ordinary job of the type available to older people. The extra cash in my case is put into the Post Office Savings Bank “just in case,” and in the meantime helps the country. The depression was over 30 years ago and we have had some of the most prosperous rimes since. Many of the new poor have television, radio, telephone, car, T.A.B. account, tobacco and beer. The people up against it are the sick and the young marrieds trying to get a home.—Yours, etc., NO MOANS. November 21, 1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32462, 24 November 1970, Page 14
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