[plug] Family membership

[Bret Busby]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Russell Steicke wrote:

> 
> I thought I'd kick off the discussion that was anticipated last night,
> about family memberships for PLUG.  I'm in favour of the idea, and
> suggest that a family membership be twice the cost of a full
> (non-concession) membership.
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> -- 
> Russell Steicke
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I suggest that a family membership be less than twice the cost of a full 
membership - maybe the sum of a full membership and a concessional 
membership, so that couples can join cheaper than joining separately, 
unless both members of a couple are eligible for, and join as, 
concessional memberships, in which case I think that no further 
concession should apply.

Thus, where one or more partners in a couple are earning an income, 
the joint or family membership fee would be equal to one full adult 
membership plus one concessional membership, and, where both partners in 
a couple are eligible for concessional membership, then their 
membership fee(s) should be equal to two separate concessional fees.

So, the fee structure would be something like:
Single - income earning - $10 (currently, I believe)
        - non-income earning (pensioners, unemployed, students, etc) - $5
          (currently, I believe)
Family - sum of Single income earning and Single non-income earning -
          $15 (from sum of above rates),
          except where both partners in a couple are eligible for Single
          non-income earning memberships, in which case the fee is twice
          the Single non-income earning memberhip fee (Total of $10,
          from above rates.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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