The NSW State Government has refused to bow to pressure to extend its promise not to gouge from last year's $30 pension increase when calculating public housing rentals. Last September under pressure from the Federal Government, the states had agreed not to include the increase in single pensions in rent calculations.
Charmaine Crowe, policy co-ordinator for the Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association, argues: "A single pensioner in public housing pays at least $3770 in rent per annum. That's comparable to what a pensioner owning a house pays in land rates and home maintenance. Yet the pensioner in public housing has a pension cut of 25%, while the home-owning pensioner keeps the entire amount."
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