With health insurance premiums set to rise by an average of 4.84% from April 1,  the premium increase will cost the average couple hundreds of dollars.  Here are our tips for taking the sting out of the increase and give you every chance of avoiding the worst of the price rises: * Switch your hospital & extras cover and get up to $300 cashback for a family/couple. * Review your cover t... read more>

With heatwave conditions across the Eastern seaboard recently, energy prices again became the water-cooler topic-of-the-week. But according to our current Fair Go survey, 1 in 3 over-50s are not receiving energy discounts despite more than half of us rating energy bills as our most stressful household bill. Only 2 in 5 of us get over 10% discount, even though these discounts are easy to f... read more>

A survey has revealed that 1 in 3 over-50s are not receiving energy discounts despite more than half of them rating energy bills as their most stressful household bill. The survey of 5,000+ was ran as a part of the Fair Go for FiftyUps campaign, which was launched to empower consumers over-50 and to get them the discounts they deserve. When asked what level of discount the FiftyUps were recei... read more>

Hi everyone! We have some wonderful books to win this week and keep an eye out in coming weeks as we have tickets in each state to Andre Rieu: Christmas with Andre - in cinemas via satellite. Congratulations to the following members from last week: Alison and Bill from WA have both won tickets to the Conscious Living Expo Marolga and Fred from NSW have both won a double pass to see P... read more>

This week on the Fiftyup Radio Show I had the pleasure of speaking to Rachel James who is a full time carer for her daughter Emily. Here's Rachel's story...My family experienced catastrophic trauma when our eldest daughter, Emily, fell whilst snowboarding in America. She broke her neck rendering her quadriplegic and I suddenly became an everyday carer in my own home. You can’t go through thi... read more>