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  <date date="2021-02-02" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Cost of Living Concession</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Cost of Living Concession</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4978" kind="question">
        <name>Ms COOK</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Hurtle Vale</electorate>
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          <question date="2020-12-01" qonNum="366">
            <name>Cost of Living Concession</name>
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        <text id="202102024ad97f37f54047e8b0001320">
          <inserted>366 <by role="member" id="4978">Ms COOK (Hurtle Vale)</by> (1 December 2020).  In the year 2019-20, how many Cost of Living Concession applications were made via:</inserted>
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        <text id="202102024ad97f37f54047e8b0001321">
          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;Website application?</inserted>
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        <text id="202102024ad97f37f54047e8b0001322">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;Telephone application?</inserted>
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        <text id="202102024ad97f37f54047e8b0001323">
          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;Paper application?</inserted>
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        <text id="202102024ad97f37f54047e8b0001324">
          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;Any other application types?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Planning and Local Government</name>
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          <question date="2020-12-01" qonNum="366">
            <name>Cost of Living Concession</name>
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          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning and Local Government):</by>  The Minister for Human Services has provided the following advice:</inserted>
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          <inserted>In 2019-20, ConcessionsSA received 47,013 applications that included COLC made via:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;Online: 35,656</inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;Telephone: Nil (numbers are included in the total for online applications as details may be entered into an online form by a customer service officer)</inserted>
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          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;Paper: 11,357</inserted>
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        <text id="202102024ad97f37f54047e8b0001330">
          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;Other: Nil</inserted>
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