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Members lean on super for financial hardships

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022
... retirement savings because of financial hardship spiked in June 2020, thanks to government incentives such as the Early Release of Superannuation Scheme, reaching $826 million. The following financial year, some $658 million was released based on financial ...

More work needed to end financial abuse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... Scheerlinck said. "The impact of coercive control in a violent relationship was starkly demonstrated in 2020 in the early release of superannuation scheme, with many women being coerced into accessing their super or having it fraudulently accessed by ...

ISA releases pre-election wish list

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
... schedule for increasing the super guarantee to 12% by 2025; and finally, ruling out relaxation of existing rules for early release of super. "Sticking with the foundations, like the plan to increase the super guarantee to 12% and preserving super for ...

Unpaid super tops $5bn per year: ISA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... (40%) or hospitality. Younger workers were also the cohort most likely to withdraw from their accounts under the Early Release of Superannuation scheme last year, with 82% of those who did being under 35 years of age. About 1.7 million men and 1.3 million ...

ERS re-contributions won't be taxed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2021
Those who took advantage of the government's early release of superannuation (ERS) program, due to loss of income during the pandemic, can put the money back in their account without incurring a tax penalty. The Australian Taxation Office confirmed ...

Superannuation assets hit $3.3tn

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021
... 5.3 per cent, and pension payments ($38.6 billion) declined 5.8 per cent representing normalisation to pre-Early Release Scheme levels," APRA said. APRA said it will release the Quarterly MySuper Statistics for the June 2021 quarter on August 31, along ...

World Pension Alliance condemns COVID early release

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... mechanisms. This would leave almost six million residents without any retirement savings. In Australia, the total COVID early release withdrawals of $36.4 billion during 2020 were a smaller fraction of total superannuation assets of $3 trillion, than ...

AMP flags recovery, profit jumps

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021
... $2.7 billion, which was less severe compared to the prior period when large corporate super mandate losses and the early release of super scheme took place. AMP chief executive Alexis George said: "We really want to broaden that offering to the external ...

Aussies lose $328m to investment scams

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... than 1500 incidents relate to superannuation scams resulting in over $6.4 million in losses, mostly prompted by the early release of superannuation scheme. Worryingly, it appears that people find it increasingly difficult to identify legitimate investment ...

ERS applicants $3100 worse off

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
Members who raided their retirement savings as a result of the early release of superannuation scheme could have been $3100 better off than if they had kept their balance intact, new research reveals. The McKell Institute, a thinktank, found that over ...