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Members still lack group insurance awareness: MetLife

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... financial services and super industry, not much has changed in the number of Australians that are aware they have access to life, TPD and income protection cover through super, MetLife said. Nearly 40% of super fund members who were aware they had insurance ...

Kogan Super launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... conservative growth, indexed Australian listed property and indexed diversified shares. It also provides default death and TPD insurance for eligible customers. A member invested in the enhanced indexed growth option with a balance of $50,000 for example ...

Government super fund changes insurance terms, premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... with its insurer AIA Australia. From 1 October 2019, members of GESB Super and West State Super will see changes to their TPD and salary continuance insurance (SCI). For death and TPD insurance changes, the terms 'sane or insane' will be replaced ...

Industry fund overhauls fee structure

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... enquiries to obtain the most complete information available." From 1 August 2019, EISS members had to pay more for death and TPD cover as part of the Protecting Your Super changes. Death and TPD cover, and death only cover rose by 7.7%. Salary continuance ...

Super body opposes member interests bill

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... birth. "Women in Super is strongly opposed to the bill," WIS said. The advocacy group labelled moves to reduce member access to TPD, income protection and life cover as "totally unacceptable" given most Australian's only hold those policies through ...

Advice associations weigh in on member interests bill

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... to the FPA, some insurance coverage is necessary for young Australians, such as total and permanent disability insurance (TPD), which it believes has been discounted by the proposed legislation. As a result, FPA head of policy and professional standards ...

NFP funds dominate group insurance market

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
... provider. For example, the average death claim processing time is one month but some insurers can take eight months to pay. TPD claims are processed in six months on average. Rainmaker also found take-up rates for default insurance range from 86% for ...

Industry fund to increase premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... Super changes after recently reducing costs for members. From 1 August 2019, EISS Super members will pay more for death and TPD cover, and death only cover by 7.7%. Salary continuance insurance and temporary salary continuance premiums will also increase ...

MLC Super updates TPD cover, premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
MLC Super has changed the way it assesses total and permanent disablement (TPD) claims for all working members from 1 July 2019. For members who have worked for 13 months before lodging a claim, MLC Super will determine if the member is unable to work ...

Super fund introduces further group insurance changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... changes, which will see some members pay more for cover. CareSuper is moving from a unit-based cover for standard death and TPD insurance to an age-based cover from 1 August 2019, where members will be allocated a dollar amount of cover based on age ...