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Quality of retirement does not depend on super balance: Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
... looked at existing and proposed super for housing policies to determine what can be done to help Australians into a first home." The Committee made two recommendations in particular; to allow first home buyers to access more of their super than has been ...

Experience pathway enshrined in legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2023
... clearing and settlement services subject to a Ministerial Declaration". Secondly, the bill gives the First Home Super Saver Scheme more flexibility. This includes allowing first-home buyers to vary a request for release and extends the request to release ...

July 1 super changes: Are you ready?

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022
... couple, or $600,000 per couple. The maximum amount of voluntary contributions that can be released from the First Home Super Saver (FHSSS) scheme will also rise, from $30,000 to $50,000. Only voluntary contributions can be accessed under the scheme ...

Big spend on cost of living, defence

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... LNP will seek to appease voters with recommitments to three existing schemes - HomeBuilder, the First Home Super Saver Scheme and the Home Guarantee Scheme. The Budget also increases support for the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation ...

$450 super threshold to be scrapped

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... maximum amount of voluntary contributions that people are able to release from their super under the First Home Super Saver Scheme will increase from $30,000 to $50,000, empowering more Australians to save effectively for their first home deposit. The ...

Budget no cure for hangover from last one

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... be another early release-style program or a more radical use of super for buying homes than the First Home Super Saver Scheme.

OPINION: Super for housing was the wrong policy fight

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... relief that government hasn't introduced a mechanism to allow members to divert their super savings into a deposit on a first home. They might have expanded the First Home Saver Super Scheme, almost doubling its capacity to release funds into a first ...

What to expect from the budget

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... home or purchase a newly built home able to do so with a deposit of as little as 5%. Finally, the First Home Super Saver Scheme will increase the maximum amount of voluntary contributions that can be released to first home buyers from their super from ...

Budget to boost home ownership rates

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... announced a raft of measures aimed at increasing home ownership levels, including the expansion of the First Home Super Saver Scheme. The government is increasing the maximum amount of voluntary contributions that can be released under the FHSS from ...

Super for house deposits will push up prices: ASFA

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... voluntary superannuation contributions more than SG rates, to be used for home loan deposits under the First Home Super Saver Scheme (FHSSS) announced in 2017-18 budget. ASFA said as at September end, FHSSS release requests totalled $44.1 million across ...
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