New requirements to keep your driver's licence

[homeless]

Just found this for your consideration
https://youtu.be/yxzHU8WB5bo?si=9J6EzKZauqZrIaUu
Drivers license does not worry me as I have not driven for about 6 years and my home care is locked and grandfathered but any body trying for aged care etc in the future it will be a lot harder and complicated.

[BernieQ2]

Sounds like another scam... fake news... same yanky voice...
Bernie.

[T1 Terry]

Just found this for your consideration
https://youtu.be/yxzHU8WB5bo?si=9J6EzKZauqZrIaUu
Drivers license does not worry me as I have not driven for about 6 years and my home care is locked and grandfathered but any body trying for aged care etc in the future it will be a lot harder and complicated.

At around the 2 min mark, he starts to talk about a modest home increasing in value because of the area and rising property values, this affecting pension eligibility ...... The family home isn't included in asset valuing, so the B/S starts there ...
If you have property as part of your retirement portfolio, you are already more than likely outside the pension eligibility threshold .... unless you have it tied up in a trust or superannuation .... but even the super could see you funding your own retirement with a self funded super pension .....

T1 Terry

[Shirley]

Terry, there was talk that the Government was going to put a limit on the value of your family home & anything above the limit would become an asset

[T1 Terry]

Terry, there was talk that the Government was going to put a limit on the value of your family home & anything above the limit would become an asset

It would have to be measured against the property value in the area. A $1m house in many Syd suburbs wouldn't really be fit to live in, yet the same $1m in a country town would have you set up like the upper crust ....

The house I grew up in, my parents paid $15,500 pound, brand new house and land in a new estate in a good part of the city. Last sold for $2.55m, then they rebuilt the house completely, wouldn't recognise it now ....... Do you have to move out because your house is now worth too much to live in it?
So you sell, buy a cheaper place in the suburbs, now you have too much money in the bank to get a pension anyway

We might have that problem now .... we live in a motorhome, when the insurance finally pays up, we have to dig into our savings just to rebuild a smaller house ...... but the property and house value will then be over $1m ..... a 2 bedroom house without sewer or mains pressure water, 2.5 kms out of a small town .... simply crazy ..... but if we just sell the land and put the money in the bank, we are without a home and have too much money for a pension .....

T1 Terry

[native pepper]

I have a multi combination Aus licence, but the Aus licence bit just gives me permission to drive road trains in every state, which have slightly different requirements. In Tas we don't have medical tests for older drivers and they're not going to introduce them, the number of accidents caused by older drivers, is very low compared to the 18-40 set here and believe everywhere else.

It's just another dumb bureaucratic nightmare to squeeze more money out of people and they see this as a great way considering the over 60 driver population is increasing. You can almost bet some major company will get the gigs and liaise with the medical profession to get the most out of it.

[T1 Terry]

I have a multi combination Aus licence, but the Aus licence bit just gives me permission to drive road trains in every state, which have slightly different requirements. In Tas we don't have medical tests for older drivers and they're not going to introduce them, the number of accidents caused by older drivers, is very low compared to the 18-40 set here and believe everywhere else.

It's just another dumb bureaucratic nightmare to squeeze more money out of people and they see this as a great way considering the over 60 driver population is increasing. You can almost bet some major company will get the gigs and liaise with the medical profession to get the most out of it.

What, a govt setting something up to be a money generator for someone .... how can you be so cynical NP In NSW, only Service NSW can do the truck testing for aged drivers, even though the testing officer doesn't hold that class of licence or ever driven a truck in most cases, yet to get the original licence, competency based assessment was good enough to let you loose on the unsuspecting general public .....

Did every step of my licence upgrades, even the motor cycle one, with a Motor Transport testing officer ..... as we drove away from the hill start for the HC upgrade, right hand turn with cars parked each side of the T section and the other side of the road, traffic coming both ways, the last test of 3/4hr of driving every where and doing things you'd never do with a triaxle drop deck trailer with loading ramps on the back of an N12 Volvo big bore engine ..... " If you don't reckon that was good enough, we'll circle back around and you can show me how it should have been done" the testing officer replied " Not likely, if anyone else had seen that much traffic, they would have turned left instead of right, I didn't even think you'd get that trailer around without taking out that car parked too close to the corner"

T1 Terry