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8 Ways to Save on your Car, Home & Contents Insurance

8 Ways to Save on your Car, Home & Contents Insurance

If you’re a FiftyUp Club member, you probably don’t claim much on your car, home and contents insurance. It’s a statistical fact that over-50s are better risks for insurance companies. In fact, it’s one of the reasons we launched the FiftyUp Club. And that’s all the more reason to make sure you’re not paying too much. If you’re not claiming […]

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Sticking up for FiftyUps: Age Discrimination Commissioner Susan Ryan

Sticking up for FiftyUps: Age Discrimination Commissioner Susan Ryan

I will begin with a question which may not seem at all odd to many of you FiftyUps. What do volunteer insurance, travel insurance and income protection insurance all have in common? According to Susan Ryan, the Age Discrimination Commissioner, they are all “problematic” for those of us over the age of 50. Here is what she had to say: […]

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Is it Time to Retune your TV?

Is it Time to Retune your TV?

My television has been broken for about three months now, or so I thought.  Every time I switched it on, nothing… no signal, no channels. My colleagues here at the FiftyUp Club have heard my constant whinging about it. It wasn’t until the roll-out of digital-only TV came up that someone jokingly pointed out that might be what’s wrong with […]

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What the State Budget means for FiftyUps

What the State Budget means for FiftyUps

Not too many losers in Mike Baird’s first budget as Premier, which is not so surprising, knowing he faces an election in nine months. Pleasingly, any references or imposts to older Australians were conspicuously absent from the document. But does that mean FiftyUps in NSW came through the budget scot-free? No, according to our latest Member Poll. We asked the […]

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