PM no comment on 予算 年金 報告(する)/憶測s

総理大臣 Tony Abbott has 辞退するd to 重さを計る in on pre-予算 憶測 that the 政府 will 捨てる its 人気がない 計画(する) to change 年金 indexation.

Mr Abbott did say the May 12 予算 would be 手段d, responsible and fair, good for 職業s growth, 適切な時期 and 信用/信任.

"People will have to wait until the 予算 itself for those sorts of 明確な/細部 詳細(に述べる)s. I'm not going to 推測する on pre-予算 憶測," he told reporters in Sydney.

Fairfax and News Corp Australia newspapers both 報告(する)/憶測d on Saturday the 政府 was planning to 減少(する) its 提案 to 索引 老年の and other 年金s 単独で によれば the 消費者 price 索引 (消費者物価指数), the インフレーション 率.

年金s are now 索引d every March and September to the higher of the 消費者物価指数 or male total 普通の/平均(する) 週刊誌 収入s (MTAWE).

Mostly 消費者物価指数 is lower than MTAWE, although not now. By 索引ing only to 消費者物価指数, the 政府 could make long-称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 貯金 of some $23 billion over 10 years, reining in some of the rising costs of an ageing community.

The 最近の intergenerational 報告(する)/憶測 事業/計画(する)d 年金s would 消費する 3.6 per cent of GDP 毎年 by 2055 if nothing was done. Changing indexation would 減ずる that to 2.7 per cent of GDP - $14.4 billion a year いっそう少なく.

Newspapers 報告(する)/憶測d the 政府 planned to (不足などを)補う some of the 貯金 through 二塁打ing the 年金 次第に減少する 率, the 量 削減(する) from 年金 支払い(額)s for every $1000 価値(がある) of 資産s over a threshold.

大蔵大臣 M athias Cormann said only that the 政府 was fully committed to making sure the 年金 systems was 維持できる for the medium and long 称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 as an important safety 逮捕する for many Australians.

Labor's families spokeswoman Jenny Macklin said the 連合 約束d before the last 選挙 there would be no change to 年金s, then 敏速に broke that 約束 in the 2014 予算.

She said Mr Abbott must now come clean and say what he was going to do in this 予算.

"Pensioners are very angry with Tony Abbott and they do not believe any 約束 that he makes," she told reporters in Melbourne.

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