Let's have a look at the budget from National Senior's point of view, what is in it for older people? The CEO National Seniors Australia, Chris Grice on the line, Chris, good morning, thank you for your time.

Let's have a look at the budget from National Senior's point of view, what is in it for older people? The CEO National Seniors Australia, Chris Grice on the line, Chris, good morning, thank you for your time.

Good morning, mass You's good to be with you.

Good morning, mass You's good to be with you.

Are you pleased with what you've seen?

Are you pleased with what you've seen?

Yeah, we're pretty pleased because there's a bit of a balance in a number of initiatives that they've announced around cost of living, age care and in particular that these are things that I guess seniors have been actually impacted by for quite some time now, and in particular around deeming. Really pleased to see that freeze for the pensioners. There's about four hundred and fifty thousand that will benefit from that, so that's going to I guess have a better good impact in terms of their pension and retaining their pension rend assistance. There's a perception that you know, there's a lot of older strains that are fortunate to own their home. Big chunks still ramp you know over for me and it's still ran and so great to see the ten percent read assistance on top of the fifteen percent from last year. And I guess there's a lot of it been a lot of talk about the energy rebate. We actually called for basically a cost of living dividend in our submission to Treasury. And because the thing is that the idea behind the dividend was to support increased costs around fuel, groceries and a particular insurance, massive increases in insurance. Now the government what they've done is and also energy I suppose as well. But what the government's done is that they are delivering that through this energy rebate because I guess it's the most effective and cheapest way that that actually did physically put the money into the hands of old restraints.

Yeah, we're pretty pleased because there's a bit of a balance in a number of initiatives that they've announced around cost of living, age care and in particular that these are things that I guess seniors have been actually impacted by for quite some time now, and in particular around deeming. Really pleased to see that freeze for the pensioners. There's about four hundred and fifty thousand that will benefit from that, so that's going to I guess have a better good impact in terms of their pension and retaining their pension rend assistance. There's a perception that you know, there's a lot of older strains that are fortunate to own their home. Big chunks still ramp you know over for me and it's still ran and so great to see the ten percent read assistance on top of the fifteen percent from last year. And I guess there's a lot of it been a lot of talk about the energy rebate. We actually called for basically a cost of living dividend in our submission to Treasury. And because the thing is that the idea behind the dividend was to support increased costs around fuel, groceries and a particular insurance, massive increases in insurance. Now the government what they've done is and also energy I suppose as well. But what the government's done is that they are delivering that through this energy rebate because I guess it's the most effective and cheapest way that that actually did physically put the money into the hands of old restraints.

Okay, the Retirement Living Council on the issue of housing says there's no vision for the future. Is a silver tsunami approaches in terms of accommodation, finding suitable accommodation retirement villages? I suppose. I mean that's who they campaigned for. But is there a truth to that that we could be doing a lot more in planning for the future with older people.

Okay, the Retirement Living Council on the issue of housing says there's no vision for the future. Is a silver tsunami approaches in terms of accommodation, finding suitable accommodation retirement villages? I suppose. I mean that's who they campaigned for. But is there a truth to that that we could be doing a lot more in planning for the future with older people.

Well, I know that the government's actually put a fair chunk of money into back into the States to provide support around infrastructure. They put a significant amount of money in terms of supporting around just mind. Not sound too sexy, but there's things like you know, drainage things like that that actually support those developments. You're going to put them in place, you've got to build it, you've got to have this stuff around it. And the federal government put money in the budget to actually support that. So that does help around housing going forward. So that's at least one thing that they are doing is a better billing dollars that they're putting into essential services like water, power, sewage and roads and things like that. So the giving that back to the states, which is going to help development, help building of new property.

Well, I know that the government's actually put a fair chunk of money into back into the States to provide support around infrastructure. They put a significant amount of money in terms of supporting around just mind. Not sound too sexy, but there's things like you know, drainage things like that that actually support those developments. You're going to put them in place, you've got to build it, you've got to have this stuff around it. And the federal government put money in the budget to actually support that. So that does help around housing going forward. So that's at least one thing that they are doing is a better billing dollars that they're putting into essential services like water, power, sewage and roads and things like that. So the giving that back to the states, which is going to help development, help building of new property.

Okay. Spoke with Rebecca Sharky, independent MP for the seat of Mayo here in the Adelaide Hills last week and she was concerned about age care packages just being on hold and people in her electorate who had been waiting for months and months and including people on diagnosed with terminal illnesses needing packages and help dying before anything has happened. So is there an improvement there? There is extra funding for more packages. Are you pleased with that?

Okay. Spoke with Rebecca Sharky, independent MP for the seat of Mayo here in the Adelaide Hills last week and she was concerned about age care packages just being on hold and people in her electorate who had been waiting for months and months and including people on diagnosed with terminal illnesses needing packages and help dying before anything has happened. So is there an improvement there? There is extra funding for more packages. Are you pleased with that?

Yeah, there's I mean, the demand is so high, but we're really keen you know, we're really pleased to see that twenty four I think it was about twenty four one hundred additional age care packages, so that's going to sort of help. But also what they've done is they put money into supporting the system. Because it's all very well to have additional packages, but if you don't have the workers to support it, and you don't have the system set up well enough to support actually processing, it ain't going to work. So great to see that they're stumped up in terms of from a wage perspective to support age ke workers to retain or attract. And the pleasing thing also is that age care workers will get the benefit of the tax cut, so that's about nine hundred and nine so there's a bit of a compounding effect there which is going to help those workers. And there's about one hundred and fifty thousand I think that they've identified that they're going to on top of the wage increase, there's about a nine hundred and nine dollars average tax cup that they're going to get. So we're really pleased about that. And probably lastly they're around they put a significant amount of money into I think it's about one point two b it's a big chunk of money to actually fix the system, to be able to make sure that when the Age Care Act is put in place, which is that's from the Royal Commission, that they actually have the system to support managing and making sure that there's scrutiny in place over a keep providers going forward.

Yeah, there's I mean, the demand is so high, but we're really keen you know, we're really pleased to see that twenty four I think it was about twenty four one hundred additional age care packages, so that's going to sort of help. But also what they've done is they put money into supporting the system. Because it's all very well to have additional packages, but if you don't have the workers to support it, and you don't have the system set up well enough to support actually processing, it ain't going to work. So great to see that they're stumped up in terms of from a wage perspective to support age ke workers to retain or attract. And the pleasing thing also is that age care workers will get the benefit of the tax cut, so that's about nine hundred and nine so there's a bit of a compounding effect there which is going to help those workers. And there's about one hundred and fifty thousand I think that they've identified that they're going to on top of the wage increase, there's about a nine hundred and nine dollars average tax cup that they're going to get. So we're really pleased about that. And probably lastly they're around they put a significant amount of money into I think it's about one point two b it's a big chunk of money to actually fix the system, to be able to make sure that when the Age Care Act is put in place, which is that's from the Royal Commission, that they actually have the system to support managing and making sure that there's scrutiny in place over a keep providers going forward.

All right, it sounds from a National Senior's point of view, out of ten you'd be giving it a reasonable mark.

All right, it sounds from a National Senior's point of view, out of ten you'd be giving it a reasonable mark.

We'll give it a bat be positive. You know on behalf of seniors, we always try to be positive, so we'll give it.

We'll give it a bat be positive. You know on behalf of seniors, we always try to be positive, so we'll give it.

We'll give it a bee positive all right, Chris Christ, thank you for your time. Thanks be CEO National Seniors Australia this morning.

We'll give it a bee positive all right, Chris Christ, thank you for your time. Thanks be CEO National Seniors Australia this morning.