{"id":42186,"date":"2025-08-04T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42186\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T06:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:18:11","slug":"government-could-claw-back-billions-from-wealthy-pensioners-who-are-building-up-inheritances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42186\/","title":{"rendered":"Government could claw back billions from wealthy pensioners who are building up inheritances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government could claw back $2.2 billion a year from \u201cwealthy\u201d pensioners by lowering pension asset tests by $100,000, and a further $3 billion a year by lifting the rate used to estimate the income people earn on their assets, a leading economic adviser to the government says.<\/p>\n<p>Modelling by the Australian National University for The Australian Financial Review also showed taxpayers are paying about $4 billion a year in payments to people living in homes worth more than $1.5 million, including $1.8 billion to people living in homes worth more than $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government could claw back $2.2 billion a year from \u201cwealthy\u201d pensioners by lowering pension asset tests by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-42186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}