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Payday super protects most vulnerable: SMC

BY CHLOE WALKER | MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023 12:41PM

New modelling by the Super Members Council (SMC) reveals payday super could add up to $36,000 to the retirement balance of workers in the lowest 20% of wage earners.

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