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Registered Dental Prosthetists Already struggling, older locals may have to tighten up their budgets.
claims budgets will get tighter “With Council rates set to rise by 3.4 per cent next fi nancial year thanks to this latest IPART decision, NSW pensioners face an average $30 hit.” But Penrith City Council rates will increase by 5.5 per cent for 2012-13 after Council was successful in getting a special rates variation in 2011. “Barry O’Farrell should listen to calls from pensioners for the Pensioner Rebate Scheme to be indexed,” Ms Cotsis said. “If the Premier cares about pensioners, he will commence immediate discussions with pensioner representatives about the Pensioner
Rebate Scheme and how the 3.4 per cent increase will impact on their members.” A spokesperson for Local Government Minister, Don Page, said the State Government appreciates the concerns of pensioners. “While we would like to see an increase in the payments made under the scheme, particularly given that they were not increased at all during the entire 16 years of the previous Labor Government, such an increase could only be achieved once the State’s fi nances have been brought back to a sustainable level,” Mr Page said.
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