When you perform abdominal exercises, you often target your upper or lower abdomen for work. While standard crunches or curls will put stress on the upper abs, reverse crunches or hip lifts will blast the lower abs. You may think youâre working two muscles, but the abdominal muscle, or rectus abdominis, is technically a single long muscle.
The Age Pension currently pays a maximum rate of $827.10 per fortnight (around $21,500 per year) for singles and $1,246.80 (around $32,500 per year) for couples combined. For singles, $751.70 of this payment represents the maximum base rate and the remaining $75.40 is paid through various supplements.he Age Pension age (the age at which a person can access the Age Pension) is currently 65 for men and 64.5 for women (but will soon increase to 65). From 2017 the Age Pension age will be increased by half a year every two years and will reach 67 by 2023.
However, the gap between the superannuation preservation age and the Age Pension age means individuals can use their superannuation savings before they reach Age Pension age, such that, on average, approximately a third of superannuation savings are being drawn down before age 65 years.t its introduction, the role performed by the Age Pension was very different from its role today. In 1909, the average male life expectancy at birth was 55 years. Age Pension age was set 10 years above average male life expectancy at birth and marginally above the average male life expectancy at age 20 years.