{"id":744702,"date":"2026-08-21T03:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744702\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T03:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:22:09","slug":"australian-welfare-age-pension-centrelink-rates-rise-for-third-time-since-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744702\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian welfare age pension, Centrelink rates rise for third time since last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pensioners and other welfare recipients with assets will have their payments tightened again next month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/government-to-end-covid-era-freeze-on-pension-deeming-rate-20250819-p5mo2o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with the deeming rate<\/a> to be lifted by 0.5 per cent, the third successive increase since a freeze was lifted a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the increase on social security payments will be partially offset by the indexation to inflation of the payments on the same day, which will add another $4 billion cost to the budget.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pensioners and other welfare recipients with assets will have their payments tightened again next month with the deeming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-744702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}