Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

I would like to ask the member for Fisher: he has explained how the government indicated that for partnered pensioners there would be a $10.14 increase in the pension, but of course the pensioners are net worse off is how he has explained it. With pensioners who are in public housing, the state government takes a proportion of their pension when they get an increase. Because they do not actually get an increase, are they even worse off as a result of that additional money that Housing and Homelessness Services in Queensland is taking from pensioners?

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