Senate debates

Thursday, 18 March 2021

Questions without Notice

Superannuation

4:08 pm

Photo of Jane HumeJane Hume (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

It is in fact very easy to find your lost or unclaimed super. It is also very quick—quicker than it takes to order a cup of coffee. You can find out if a slice of that $13.8 billion belongs to you. All you have to do is jump onto the myGov website, link to the ATO portal and click the 'manage my super' link. It is that easy. So if you've lost or you have forgotten your super it will be sitting there waiting for you. You can scroll through and you can actually consolidate your lost and forgotten amounts into your active primary super fund all for free, making sure that your super works much harder for you. It is that simple. The government has requested that the ATO do that work on your behalf. So there's no need to search. There's no need to hand over information. If you have forgotten super, the ATO will use data-matching technology that only the ATO has to match your lost super to you. That all happens right in your myGov account.

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