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Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

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Cost-benefit analysis of portability policy

Policy Research Paper 16 / Kruno Kukoc and Norbert Zmijews. October 2001

In light of international trends towards portability (where social security payments continue when the recipient has left the country), this paper examines current policy in Australia. Through a survey of 1009 randomly selected households, it was found that Age Pension portability produced both significant social and economic benefits.


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