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| | | ... complaints data at all. This is baffling, and frankly, unacceptable." Released today, Report 831 Delivering on death benefits: Have super trustees stepped up? provides an update to ASIC's investigation into how trustees were taking or not taking ... |
| | | | ... within estate planning arrangements, particularly the role beneficiary nominations play in determining how super death benefits are distributed. Lubofksy noted Australians mistakenly assume their Will automatically covers their superannuation, despite ... |
| | | | ... payments. The government now wants all super funds to step up and force the timely and compassionate handling of death benefits, fair and efficient processing of insurance claims, and clear, respectful and accessible communications with members. The ... |
| | | | ... violence or unlawful killing. It also supported allowing trustees to consider evidence of abuse when deciding how death benefits are distributed, even if the abuse was not a direct cause of death. SMC said empowering trustees to make these decisions ... |
| | | | ... and raises important questions about how Division 296 will operate in practice, particularly where the payment of death benefits can span multiple years due to matters outside of a trustee's control," he said. There is also the potential for differences ... |
| | | | ... Super Package (PYS) and the Putting Members' Interests First (PMIF) reforms result in $670 million in foregone death benefits each year, new research from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) shows. Seven years since the two ... |
| | | | ... Consultation is now open on reforms to prevent perpetrators of domestic and family violence from receiving the super death benefits of their victims. Under current law, a superannuation trustee may be required to pay a death benefit to a person who perpetrated ... |
| | | | ... (7,687) in 2025 was driven by delays in handling claims and disputes over claim decisions. While complaints about death benefits have remained steady, the main pressure points were timeliness and transparency in the claims process, AFCA explained. The ... |
| | | | ... unfairly reduced. Williamson retired from the Navy in 1982 and was a member of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (DFRDB) Scheme. The scheme was open to members of the defence force between 1972 and 1991, at which point it was closed to ... |
| | | | ... delayed death benefit payments In February, AustralianSuper was investigated by ASIC over delays in paying out death benefits, after it remediated members last year. AustralianSuper announced last November that it would compensate around 7000 beneficiaries ... |
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