Payments for your retirement:
- Age Pension - for retired people to ensure an adequate income in retirement.
- Widow Allowance (no new grants after 1 July 2005 unless born on or before 1 July 1955) - for older widowed, divorced or separated women without recent work experience.
- Mature Age Allowance (no new grants from 20 September 2003) - for older people who are disadvantaged in finding work.
- Partner Allowance (no new grants from 20 September 2003) - for people with no recent work experience whose partner gets a payment.
- Wife Pension (no new grants from 1 July 1995) - for the female partner of a Disability Support Pensioner or Age Pensioner.
- Widow 'B' Pension (no new grants from 20 March 1997) - for older widows without the financial support of their partner.
- Pension Loans Scheme - for people of Age Pension age whose capital is tied up in assets.
- Pension Bonus Scheme - for people who defer claiming Age Pension and continue to work.
- Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment - for the surviving partner of a deceased Pension Bonus Scheme member who did not make their claim for Age Pension and Pension Bonus before they died.
- Seniors Concession Allowance - assistance with regular bills that are not available at a concessional rate.
- Utilities Allowance - assistance for you in meeting the costs of regular bills such as gas, electricity and water.
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