Technical update: Age pension rates & supplements (Wanderwell v4)

6 October 2022

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Technical Update

This seasonal update includes the latest available figures for Age pension, in accordance with the recently published document 'A guide to Australian Government payments 20 September 2022 to 31 December 2022' by Service Australia.

Age pension

Field	Old	New
Single $/fortnight	882.2	936.8
Couple (each) $/fortnight	665	706.2
Single maximum supplement $/fortnight	71.2	75.6
Couple maximum supplement (each) $/fortnight	53.7	57
Single energy supplement $/fortnight	14.1	14.1
Couple energy supplement (each) $/fortnight	10.6	10.6

Notes for existing users

Please refresh your results for active cases

If you have any existing cases in progress, please refresh your results by clicking the Start Solve button for any scenarios where you created results on or before the release date of Thursday 6 October 2022. This will ensure that all your scenarios are consistent. Note that the numbers in your results may change when you re-solve, but it is better to be consistent across scenarios. If you are unsure when your results were created, see How to check when your results were created.

For the updated assumptions, any cases you started before the release date will continue with the previous assumptions. Any cases you create after the release date will have the new assumptions.