4. In an official ministerial response, Social Services Minister Anne Ruston refused to rule out changing rules of card to expand its use.
“CPSA [the Combined Pensioners and Superannuants’ Association] finally, after four months, received a ministerial response. This is what it says:
Under current legislation, Age Pension recipients are not eligible to become compulsory [Cashless Welfare Card] participants…
Under current legislation, the letter says.
This falls well short of a categorical statement that Age Pensioners will never be put on the Cashless Welfare Card.
It would be such a simple statement to make.
Why doesn’t the Minister make it?”
Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association, 24 March 2020.
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