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Pages tagged "cost of living"


Minister refuses to apologise to regional seniors as card budget blows out in first month

Posted on Blog by Jo Haylen · March 02, 2020 1:02 PM

Labor is demanding answers after National Minister Paul Toole confirmed the Regional Seniors Travel Card has more than doubled its budget, in just the program’s first month.

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Singleton seniors kicked to the kerb by Regional Seniors Travel Card exclusions

Posted on Blog by Jo Haylen · February 28, 2020 9:06 AM

Michael Johnsen and The Nationals have unfairly excluded seniors in Singleton on disability and carers pensions from the $250 Regional Seniors Travel Card that they were promised.

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More Delays as Veterans Forced to Wait Months for $250 Travel Card

Posted on Blog by Jo Haylen · February 26, 2020 9:18 AM

Veterans are again being left on the side of the road by the Nationals, with reports they will be forced to wait up to three months before they can apply for the Regional Seniors Travel Card.

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Haylen refers Nationals' travel card rort to Electoral Commission

Posted on Blog by Jo Haylen · February 19, 2020 11:48 AM

Jo Haylen MP, Shadow Minister for Seniors and Cost of Living, has made an official complaint to the NSW Electoral Commission about the Nationals’ Regional Seniors Travel Card rort.

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Regional Travel Card Catastrophe: Carers and people with disability overlooked again

Posted on Blog by Jo Haylen · February 17, 2020 9:18 AM

An expansion of the eligibility criteria of the $250 Regional Seniors Travel Card has failed to include seniors who receive a carer’s payment or disability support pension. 

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Carers and people with disability join long list of people excluded from Nationals' Regional Seniors Card

Posted on Blog by Jo Haylen · February 14, 2020 8:32 AM

In what appears to be another major issue with the card, only seniors in receipt of the Aged Pension are able to apply, leaving some of the neediest and most vulnerable seniors in regional communities without access to the $250 scheme.

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Veterans stranded, furious and forgotten following Liberal-National incompetence

Posted on Blog by Jo Haylen · February 14, 2020 6:30 AM

The Nationals have delayed the card, excluded whole communities, underfunded the card by $135 million and now veterans are being turned away when they try to apply. It’s just not good enough.

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Trial of Regional Seniors Travel Card

Posted on Blog by Jo Haylen · February 06, 2020 11:02 AM

A question to the Government about the trial of the Regional Seniors Travel Card.

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Regional Seniors Travel Card delay disadvantages elderly

Posted on Blog by Jo Haylen · January 21, 2020 1:42 PM

Labor is warning that the Nationals are disadvantaging seniors in rural and regional NSW already hit by drought and fires, after delaying the Regional Seniors Travel Card until February.

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Self-Funded Retiree Energy Rebate

Posted on Blog by Felix Faber · November 20, 2019 9:37 AM

A question to the Minister for Customer Service.

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