Super helps fund homeownership, and homeownership helps retirees get the pension.
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Most retired renters are in poverty, very few home owners are.
Most Australians get enough to live on in retirement. Some get more they get while working, but 30% get less, and boosting super won’t help them.
A leading-edge study conducted for the Retirement Incomes Review used Tax Office data to examine what happened to wages after firms paid more super.
We give the biggest concessions to those least likely to need persuasion to save well.
The government’s retirement incomes review should concentrate on boosting rent assistance and Newstart and fixing the pension assets test. These would achieve more than boosting super.
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