Changes to your insurance premiums
01 July 2024
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Our average insurance premiums are decreasing.
If you have insurance cover in your QSuper Accumulation account, you’ll want to know about these changes from 1 July this year.
Decrease in average premiums
QSuper Accumulation account holders with insurance as part of their account will have seen an average reduction in premiums from 1 July.
The average premium reductions are:
How this impacts you depends on your age, occupational rating, and the types of insurance cover you hold.
We’re continuously reviewing and improving our insurance terms and conditions to allow more members access to insurance benefits at their time of need. And we adjust our premiums to ensure we can continue to support our members now and into the future.
Insurance through your super
Our insurance has three types of cover. We offer:
Death cover
TPD cover
Income Protection
In the 12 months to 31 March 2024, we paid out 4,745 claims for members.*
In 2022-23 our insurer accepted:**
97.1% of Death claims
97.2% of TPD claims
98.9% of Income Protection claims
Changes to the way we rebate tax
QSuper account holders previously received an automatic tax benefit when we deducted their insurance premiums. This changed from 1 July to a direct tax rebate at the end of financial year instead. It will impact the upfront amount you will pay from your super balance.
Learn more in our May 2024 Product Update.
Update to occupational ratings
Applying an occupational rating to your cover is a way in which you can personalise how much you pay for your insurance. It better reflects your job or occupation. Depending on your job, you may pay less or more if you apply an occupational rating. We updated occupational rating factors from 1 July 2024.
* We use data that we source from our insurer, QInsure. QInsure Limited ABN 79 607 345 853, AFSL 483057 (QInsure), registered life insurance company.
** Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) MoneySmart website’s Life insurance claims comparison tool, accessed 14 April 2024 at moneysmart.gov.au