Vic: Pensioners may keep some of bonus for next year - seniors

AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-2008
Vic: Pensioners may keep some of bonus for next year - seniors

A seniors group says Prime Minister KEVIN RUDD shouldn't count on pensioners using
their one-off Christmas windfall to splash out in the stores.

National Seniors Australia chairman EVERALD COMPTON says some pensioners will use the
money to buy Christmas presents .. but others will remain very conservative.

Mr CROMPTON says they're worried about what's going to happen to them in 2009 and they'll
be very careful with the way they spend the bonus.

The federal government started sending out cheques to seniors today with single age
pensioners receiving 14-hundred and couples 21-hundred under the Commonwealth's 10.4 billion
dollar Economic Security Strategy.

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KEYWORD: STIMULUS PENSIONERS (MELBOURNE)

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