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Technical update: Updates to Age Pension Payments and Deeming Rates
22 September 2025
From 20 September 2025, the following changes we put in place by the Australian Government.
Age Pension Deeming rate
The Deeming rate for singles and couples has changed as follows:
The lower deeming rate has increased from 0.25% to 0.75%
The upper deeming rate has increased from 2.25% to 2.75%
Age Pension Payments
Age Pension Payments have been updated as follows:
| Old Value | New Value |
Single $/fortnight | 1,047.10 | 1079.70 |
Couple (each) $/fortnight | 789.3 | 813.90 |
Single maximum supplement $/fortnight | 83.2 | 84.90 |
Couple maximum supplement (each) $/fortnight | 62.7 | 64 |
Notes for existing users - Remember to refresh your results!
If you were in the middle of working on a case on 22 September 2025, it’s a good idea to refresh your results the Start solve button, to be sure that you have results with the latest assumptions. If you are unsure when your results were created, see How to check when your results were created. Note that some numbers in your results may change when these new assumptions are applied.