Centrelink a barrier to Australian pensioners filling skills gaps, advocates say

Retirement was going well for Henry Gasior.

After a long career in the aviation industry, the pensioner was enjoying volunteering and helping out at his local food bank in Bacchus Marsh, about 40 kilometres out of Melbourne.

Then, a year and a half ago, the 76-year-old did something he never saw coming: he went back to work.