Changes to the asset test rules for the aged pension that were effective from 1 January, 2017 could hurt middle-income Australians, the SMSF Association has warned. The Association believed that the ...

Every now and then a policy is so badly designed, so completely out of touch with reality, that it deserves to be called out. The age pension income test is one of those.

The age pension will increase, as will the upper limits of the assets and income tests for a part pension in retirement, on 20 March. The Department of Social Services has just announced the next ...

An asset test that allows older Australians with million-dollar assets to collect a part-pension is likely to be spared the budget axe. The Australian reports that despite signals the federal ...

There is no income test or asset test on the pension, so anyone can claim it, no matter what they're earning.