A single pensioner will get $772.6 per fortnight about £495 per fortnight. Not to mention being able to earn $152 single or $268 combined per fortnight. Not taxed either. So with a modest amount in the bank a couple would be on $14368 per fortnight. Plus there are a few more lerks and perks with that as well like rent assistance. Not to mention transport fares, rates both water and land rates reduced. Pensioner discounts on goods in some shops. I think we here in Oz are not doing it to bad considering what others have. That is the basic that one can get anything else is a bonus. So when you hear of people out here being part pensioners or self funded pensioners you can be assured that they are not doing it hard. To hear some of them out here you would think that they are starving to death the way they carry on. I bet there are many in the UK willing to swap places. So imagine what our parsitic pollies are on would make your mind boggle.
That's the way the mop flops.
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