Scams, Super & Surcharges
This week brought fresh questions about health insurance, aged care fees, retirement confidence and scams. Getting older was supposed to mean fewer surprises, but they keep coming.
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Groceries, Grifters & Gums
Supermarkets are being forced to toe the line, Scammers add new meaning to “fake news” with a dangerously convincing online rort and retirees raid their super to pay for dental treatment.
Cash, Care and CrossFit
Cost of living pressures are forcing retirees to live overseas , super funds are still delaying payments to grieving families, and one 70-year-old with a metal knee is doing things most 30-year-olds wouldn't contemplate.
Candles. Bills. Scammers
Australia's oldest woman turns 112, specialists charge fees that would make a loan shark blush, scammers work overtime and economists have finally calculated the price of happiness. Spoiler alert: most of us can't afford it.
Flu, Fees and Fumbles
Australia's getting older, sicker, more crowded and apparently easier to rob. Meanwhile, banks are charging us billions in fees, and aged care homes are monetising volunteer guitarists, Here's the news you might have missed...
Gold Bars & Grey Hairs
NDIS Scammers get hit where it hurts most. Crime syndicates target oldies and drivers beware: Councils are using Robo-cops to grab your cash.
Grey Nomad Gouging
The great Australian retirement dream now appears to involve selling your house, navigating Centrelink’s Byzantine labyrinth, and waiting 14 months for someone to answer the phone at your health fund. For more encouraging news, read on.