Nemises

What tax?

Here are the current fortnightly supplement amounts. Shame they’re not higher, otherwise they could cover the airfares back to Aus to claim them every six weeks 😁

You're welcome. I'm also a stickler for the rules and I also frequently return to Aus for holidays, but am not bothered to tell them when they state on their website that immigration tell them anyway.

You need to tell us if you’re leaving Australia and any of the following apply, you: are going to live in another country will be away for more than 6 weeks get Age Pension under a social security agreement with another country are leaving Australia within 2 years after coming back to live and started getting Age Pension since then or your partner are getting income from employment. If your Centrelink online account is linked to myGov, you can tell us about your travel plans online. If you don’t have these, you’ll need to create them. You can also use your online account to get information on how your travel could affect your payments and concession cards. If you can’t use an online account, tell us your travel plans by either: calling the Older Australians line going to a service centre. Australia’s immigration department will tell us when you leave. They will also tell us when you return. https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/when-and-how-to-tell-us-about-overseas-travel-if-you-get-age-pension?context=22526#:~:text=Australia's immigration department will tell,tell us when you return.&text=To get your payment or,qualification rules at all times.

Although they ask you to, it's not important to inform Centrelink of overseas travel as Australian immigration will tell Centrelink every time you leave and return to the country.

Didn’t think it mattered whether you informed them or not?

Not just Sukhumvit. You need to get out more.

FACT: You will die sooner if you rent! …from the age of 65 the life expectancy of renters was 2.3 years shorter than owner occupiers,” Dr Kiely said. https://www.uow.edu.au/media/2024/older-australians-who-rent-their-homes-have-shorter-life-expectancy.php

Wedding pics or it didn’t happen.

Yes, a lot more! It increased my bank account fourfold as I knew for sure that the fight would last the (much shorter) distance with shorter rounds and that the younger guy would win. Mentioned that to a few mates as well before the fight, we all are now much wealthier, by a factor of four! Amazing odds for something so predictable.

No one said expat workers in Vietnam are not allowed to purchase a car! The post you quoted clearly states retired expats. Furthermore the topic is about where you retired to - not where you’re going to work at.

Yes I used a Thai-based expat fund manager, just showed them my passport from memory.

Health insurance is needed for DTV. No thanks, prefer to stay Non O

Retired expats cannot own a car in Vietnam, so if you like the “freedom”, safety (compared to a motorcycle) and convenience of having car, then avoid this country.

Simply go the TV station’s website using a VPN. Enjoy.

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So most doctors are “a bit silly”. Go it 👍 The best room temperature for sleep is approximately 65 degrees Fahrenheit (18.3 degrees Celsius). This may vary by a few degrees from person to person, but most doctors recommend keeping the thermostat set between 65 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit (15.6 to 20 degrees Celsius)for the most comfortable sleep. www.sleepfoundation.org

Livin’ the dream 😭

28??!! No thanks. Most doctors recommend keeping the thermostat set to around 20 degrees Celsius for the most comfortable sleep.

How one tweak can give us an increased pension! The Age Pension is meant to be a financial backup and the superannuation system was designed to support us in a comfortable retirement. Still, increasingly older Australians are falling into poverty, so what’s going wrong? It’s estimated one in five older Australians live in poverty. At the September 2024 indexation, the Age Pension single payments rose by $28.10 per fortnight, while combined payments for couples increased by $21.20 per person. That’s an increase of less than 3 per cent, which in no way covers the rising costs of basics such as energy, food and insurance, some of which have increased by double digits. World Bank data has revealed that Australians pay up to 41 per cent more for meat, up to 45 per cent more for dairy and as much as 46 per cent more for fruit than other countries. Add to that the increasing number of Australians heading into retirement with a mortgage or renting in unstable private markets with ever-increasing rents. Far from a comfortable retirement, many older Australians are facing a grim future. So what’s the answer? A recent report by The Australia Institute claims there is one simple tweak that could easily alleviate the problem. The institute wants to remove the massive concessions to those retiring with millions of dollars and use that money to increase the Age Pension. New research by The Australia Institute has found that Australia spends almost as much giving tax breaks to wealthy retirees as it does providing a safety net, the Age Pension, to those with little or no retirement savings. Click here for source

Keep your money in your homeland - all of it withdraw-able at anytime - but tell the TGF that only limited amounts are made available every so often such as annuities, dividends, pension payments etc. Your savings are now safe. She now needs to budget this income. You no-longer have a bottomless pit for her and family to drain. You’re are no-longer worth more to her dead than alive.

Too funny. Things a little boring in the village?

Where do you buy this?

Mrs N can do it long time 😀

Is that you Bob?!