Not working? Check on your insurance inside super, ISA says

27 June 2019
| By Hannah Wootton |
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Super fund members on parental leave or taking a break from work have just five more days to ensure their insurance inside super isn’t unintentionally cut from their inactive accounts, with Industry Super Australia (ISA) urging them to contact their super funds and check if they will be affected.

From next Monday (1 July), the Government’s Protecting Your Super package would see the cancellation of insurance attached to super accounts that had been inactive for 16 months or more, and while super funds themselves were contacting impacted members, many were concerned that low member engagement with fund communications would see some consumers unwittingly losing group cover.

“With only five days to go until the changes kick in, this is one of those times people really need to think about their super and not throw the letter from their fund straight in the bin, or mark the email as spam,” ISA chief executive, Bernie Dean, said.

“Straightening it out is easy – if you decide you do want to continue the insurance cover, just let your super fund know.

“If you’re worried or don’t know if you’ll be affected give your super fund a call. With only five days to go until 1 July it’s vital people get engaged with their super now and don’t put it off to another day.”

Alongside the insurance change, 1 July would also see the automatic consolidation of all low balance ($6,000 or less) accounts and inactive accounts would transferred to the Australian Taxation Office as part of the Morrison Government’s package.

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