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Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott needs to come clean on his secret plan to make older Australians work longer to pay for welfare payments for high-income families.

A report in today’s Sydney Morning Herald reveals that Mr Abbott has a secret plan to increase the pension age so that high-income families can receive generous family tax benefit payments for children under five years of age

Mr Abbott’s shadow cabinet proposal says:

The Australian Government will provide $65,000 to the Welfare Rights Centre in New South Wales to keep families, pensioners and other income support recipients informed of their rights and obligations when accessing government payments.

The new funding will help employ a researcher to update and edit the Online Independent Social Security Handbook and provide the information free of charge on the Welfare Rights Centre website, making it more accessible. Currently it is accessed through a subscription fee.