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Thread ID: 147828 2019-05-03 04:54:00 Living allowance, livable? the_bogan (9949) PC World Chat
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1460379 2019-05-04 11:46:00 It seems you are on the wrong tax code, my wife and I get $632 a fortnight and we have some investments as well.:) Arnie (6624)
1460380 2019-05-04 11:49:00 And a rates rebate as well if you live in your own home. We got $630 off our rates this year (the amount depends on your property valuation):) Arnie (6624)
1460381 2019-05-04 11:50:00 Doubled up it's obvious I am retired:clap Arnie (6624)
1460382 2019-05-04 21:44:00 rates rebates are dependant on your A)Income and B)Rates cost


www.govt.nz


A couple on pension earn too much and therefore get $0 off. As was the case when my dad was still alive.
Now my mum is on her own she qualifies, it's a maximum of $630.

Friends dad also gets it...big deal as his rates are $3600 a year.
piroska (17583)
1460383 2019-05-04 23:32:00 One hand of the government gives the other takes away.

Small businessmen think they keep the country running financially and all the beneficiaries are taking their hard-earned money, but they fail to see the bigger picture.

Luckily so far they aren't running the country, heaven help us if the right-wing gets in charge again, austerity measures for everyone except them and in the end a failing economy.
zqwerty (97)
1460384 2019-05-04 23:35:00 One hand of the government gives the other takes away.

The other way around! The government takes it away first and then gives it.
CliveM (6007)
1460385 2019-05-04 23:42:00 I wonder if there is a correlation between the people who can't see that global warming is a reality and can't see in the same way how the economy of the country as a whole is not well served by the small-minded philosophy of right-wing business people.

That a whole lot of people working flat out and combining into corporations has brought us to the point where we may not even have a future at all.

We were taught at University Economics 101 that about 10% of the population can serve all the physical needs of the rest of the community, ie food, housing etc, thus the rest of the population is free to do as they please to get some money tokens to participate in the economy or not ie burger flipping or hairdressing for instance. The problem is not to run the economy it's to distribute the wealth of the country in an equitable way to all concerned, as none of us are really going anywhere at all except making more or less revolutions around the Sun, and there is nowhere else to go anyway.
zqwerty (97)
1460386 2019-05-04 23:55:00 They are so caught up in the bumph (the bits and bobs) of living that they have lost sight of the big picture.

Advertising is one way that the big corporations lead people astray into buying a whole lot of crap.

It's not live to work it's work to live, and spending a whole life working to amass physical objects is a waste of anyone's life.
zqwerty (97)
1460387 2019-05-05 01:02:00 ....

Also you should be getting $20/wk heating allowance for the colder months of Winter, Yay Labour.


No, not yet - it doesn't start until next week! :)
bevy121 (117)
1460388 2019-05-05 05:36:00 No, not yet - it doesn't start until next week! :)

1st may actually.
But pension people - next payment is 14th....so theirs is then. My brother has his already (Supported Living)
piroska (17583)
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