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Speaker 1: Senior Territorians are benefiting from the Senior's recognition scheme. It

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Speaker 1: is the distribution of this year's pre paid bank cards

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Speaker 1: are almost complete as I understand it.

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Speaker 2: Joining me on the line to tell me more.

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Speaker 1: Sue Shearer, She is the CEO of the counsel of

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Speaker 1: the agent.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, soe.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Katie. Love you hear your adulphsive tones again.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to hear yours too, Sue. How are those How

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Speaker 1: are those cards going?

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Speaker 3: Most people would have got them by now. I think

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Speaker 3: overall fifteen thousand, one cent out it could have been

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Speaker 3: sixteen thousand and excuse me, that's over eight million dollars

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Speaker 3: that'll be returned to the local economy. So besides Senior

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Speaker 3: is benefiting, obviously, businesses also benefit, which is wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 1: It is a good thing. So which like, where can

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Speaker 1: people spend that money? Where can senior spend that money?

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Speaker 3: Well it's changed quite a bit. Last year you could

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Speaker 3: only really before Dune. Last year you could really only

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Speaker 3: do petrol and accommodation and travel and a few other things.

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Speaker 3: But now you can spend it on everything except alcohol,

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Speaker 3: gambling products and what we call naughty products.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, so everything else.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, if you were spending it on

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Speaker 1: your petrol, you wouldn't get very far.

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Speaker 3: So oh, I know, it's just it's really criminal actually

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Speaker 3: what they're doing to territorian I feel for people with

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Speaker 3: the cost of living. And while that five hundred dollars

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Speaker 3: might help on a debit carden for a couple they

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Speaker 3: get a thousand, it won't go far with the cost

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Speaker 3: they want to buy groceries, or if they also want

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Speaker 3: to put fuel on it, it really just doesn't go far.

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Speaker 1: All.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a tough thing at the moment.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a wonderful thing that our seniors get

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Speaker 1: this five hundred dollars on those cards, but so is

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Speaker 1: it quite hard at the moment for a lot of

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Speaker 1: our seniors when it comes to cost of.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's very hard if you're on a set income,

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Speaker 3: even for self funded retirees on a set income, but

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Speaker 3: especially mention it and those people as well, I mean,

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Speaker 3: they finding it difficult to even feed their pets. They'd

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Speaker 3: rather feed their pets than feed themselves, and that's a

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Speaker 3: really sad situation and a lot of them, as we know,

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Speaker 3: also put solar in with the promise of a particular rebate,

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Speaker 3: and now that's been taken away from them. So there's

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Speaker 3: a whole raft of issues that are affecting seniors and

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Speaker 3: making it very difficult for them to survive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough going and I know that you and

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Speaker 1: I have spoken about that before. It's tough going for

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Speaker 1: a lot of people at the moment with the cost

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Speaker 1: of living. So just to go back to those cards

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Speaker 1: for a minute, though, is there somewhere con territories for

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Speaker 1: any of those sceniors that are listening this morning that

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Speaker 1: do want a bit further detail? Is there is the

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Speaker 1: CODA website the best place to go? Well, where can

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Speaker 1: they get a bit further detail if they need it?

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Speaker 3: Oh, they can come, they can come to us. But

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Speaker 3: the best website is the Anti Concessions website because it

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Speaker 3: is a tertiary government initiative. But we, as I said,

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Speaker 3: we lobbied long and half because we said it wasn't

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Speaker 3: an income management scheme. It's actually a reward, a recognition

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Speaker 3: for seniors who live up here. So they can go

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Speaker 3: to the anti concession scheme, but you have to be

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Speaker 3: obviously sixty five and over. But it doesn't matter what

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Speaker 3: your economic status is, you can still get that sixty

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Speaker 3: five and over that five hundred dollars a year, which

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Speaker 3: I said, which is a big help for not only seniors,

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Speaker 3: but also as I said, over eight million dollars will

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Speaker 3: we returned to the local economy. So that's really good

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is good.

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Speaker 1: Well, so it's always lovely to speak to you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for having a quick chat with us

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Speaker 1: this morning.

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Speaker 3: Not a problem, kay.

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Speaker 2: Do you take care of you too. Thank you