Insurance for super members with inactive accounts
We’re required to cancel insurance cover for inactive accounts, which means when your super account hasn’t received a contribution or a rollover for 16 consecutive months.
You can make sure your super account doesn’t become inactive if you still want insurance, by telling us or making a rollover or regular contributions to your super.
Don’t worry though if it slips your mind — we’ll send you regular reminder notices before your super account becomes inactive, so you have time to act before your insurance is cancelled.
Want to keep your insurance in super?
Protecting Your Superannuation Package (PYSP)
Stops us from providing insurance cover to you if your super account is inactive (inactive means, your super hasn’t received a contribution or a rollover for over 16 months) - unless you choose to keep your insurance cover. This change started from 1 July 2019. Don’t worry though – we’ll send you regular reminder notices if your account becomes inactive, so you can act before your insurance cover is cancelled.
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Consider your insurance in super options
It's important to consider if having insurance in super is right for you. It's about making sure that you have the right type and amount of insurance cover to meet your financial means now and in the future, because cost of insurance is deducted from your super savings.
It’s also about making sure that you’re not paying for insurance cover that you may not need. If you have more than one super account, you should consider how paying multiple insurance premiums will affect your super savings.
Find out more on our Think ahead. Act now for the future section.
How to keep your insurance
If you’d like to keep your insurance cover and your super account hasn’t received any money for over 16 consecutive months and has become inactive — log in and submit the online form.
Other options to keep your insurance
- Make sure your super account receives a contribution or rollover become active again. You can also set up regular contributions into your account.
- Look at what other super accounts you have—you may want to transfer and bring them together into one account (also known as a rollover).
- Download the PDF form and once completed, return it to us.
If you return the completed Choose to Keep My Insurance cover form, your insurance cover will stay in place until you tell us otherwise, provided there are sufficient funds in your super account to pay for the cost of insurance.
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