The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, will ask the Treasurer the following in Question Time today. Please check against delivery.
“Treasurer, the Government claims the recent change to the income test for defined benefit pension recipients will principally affect superannuants on big incomes.
“But the truth is that most of those affected are on modest incomes and nowhere near wealthy. Take one Tasmanian couple, for example, whose only assets are a caravan and a car but have lost $164 a fortnight from their Age Pension.
“Treasurer will you immediately reconsider this policy?”
WHEN: Approximately 2:15pm TODAY 8 February
WHERE: House of Representatives (watch live at http://www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Events/Watch_Parliament)
Andrew Wilkie, Independent MP for Denison
