Access to income support affects women and men in different ways; it is not gender neutral. This submission responds to the terms of reference through a gender lens.
NFAW rejects the draft proposals and recommends that the draft Bill introduce a permanent and adequate increase for the relevant payments.
The retirement income system affects women and men in different ways; it is not gender neutral. This submission responds to the terms of reference through a gender lens. This submission particularly addresses question 14 in the consultation paper.
Prior to retirement women face a gender pay gap, broken work histories, have lower superannuation, have a greater incidence of single person households and an increasing incidence of homelessness.
There has been a strong focus on supporting women into the workforce, particularly single mothers. Their primary method for doing so has been to keep the Newstart payment artificially low (currently below the poverty line), increase compliance requirements for receiving income support, and take a punitive approach to people who receive income support payments.
ACOSS welcomes the government’s announcement to take the last zombie measure - ‘increasing the pension age’ - off the table. The pension age increase was flagged in Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott’s 2014 horror budget which saw a range of ‘zombie’ measures targeted at hurting people who could least afford to be hurt.
NFAW is concerned about the financial security of women, and the role of superannuation in achieving that security. To that end we have made a number of submissions to previous Parliamentary and Treasury enquiries into the superannuation system and to the Senate Inquiry into the Financial Security of Women in Retirement.
NFAW is concerned about the financial security of women, and the role of superannuation in achieving that security. To that end we have made a number of submissions to previous Parliamentary and Treasury enquiries into the superannuation system and to the Senate Inquiry into the Financial Security of Women in Retirement.
Impacts of Government proposals to cut family benefits. 1.1 million families will lose FTB-A Supplements of $726 per child.
