FCAQ Report - Give Financial Counselling in Queensland a Fair Go
03/09/2024
FCAQ prepared a report in April 2024 seeking a fair go for financially vulnerable Queenslanders through a sustained investment in the financial counselling sector.
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FCAQ News
Insurance premiums in northern Australia remain high ahead of insurers joining reinsurance pool
20/12/2022
Insurance affordability remains a significant issue in northern Australia and other high cyclone risk areas, according to the ACCC’s first insurance monitoring report.
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Health funds continue to return profits to meet COVID-19 commitments
01/12/2022
Health insurers have handed back to policyholders about $2.1 billion of the profits they gained from a reduction in claims between the start of the pandemic and 30 June 2022, the ACCC’s latest report
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Private health insurance report 2021-22
22/11/2022
This report provides an update on key competition and consumer developments and trends in private health insurance between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2022.
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Health funds must exercise caution when calculating COVID-19 relief for policyholders
09/12/2021
Insurers have continued to return profits gained from a reduction in claims during the COVID‑19 pandemic to policyholders, but ongoing restrictions in some states delayed the full return of these profits in 2020-21, the latest ACCC annual
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Private health insurance report 2020-21
07/12/2021
This report provides an update on key competition and consumer developments and trends in private health insurance between 1 July 2020 and 30 June 2021.
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Northern Australian communities need more affordable insurance
04/01/2021
Unaffordable home, contents and strata insurance is a major challenge to the liveability and prosperity of communities, towns and cities across northern Australia, but a range of actions could help address this, according to a major report published by the ACCC.
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Private health insurance report 2019-20
04/12/2020
This report provides an update on key competition and consumer developments and trends in private health insurance between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020.
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Insurers to be authorised to continue relief measures for small businesses
10/06/2020
The ACCC is proposing to allow insurance companies and brokers to continue coordination and implementation of temporary COVID-19 relief measures for certain small businesses.
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Insurers to offer deferred payments, refunds under small business relief package
02/04/2020
Insurance companies and brokers will be able to work together to implement COVID-19 relief measures for certain small businesses following the ACCC’s granting of interim authorisation today.
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Private health insurance premiums rise despite growing exclusions
02/03/2020
For the first time, the majority of hospital treatment policies held by Australians now contain exclusions, the latest ACCC annual report into the private health insurance industry has found.
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