How you can change your cover
Because your insurance is flexible, you can change it as your circumstances change. To apply to make insurance changes, log in to your online account.
Ways you can change your cover
Death and Total and Permanent Disablement (TPD)
• Increase or decrease your cover
• Cancel your cover
• Choose only Death or TPD cover or different amounts of each
• Convert between age-based and fixed cover
Income Protection
• Increase or decrease your cover
• Cancel your cover
• Change your waiting period (30, 60 or 90 days)
• Change your benefit period (2 years, 5 years or to age 65)
How much cover do you need?
Unsure what insurance option is right for you? Our insurance calculator can help you estimate your cover needs.
How insurance changes work
Increasing your cover
If your current cover isn’t enough to suit your needs or you previously chose not to receive it, you can apply for additional cover. Applications are assessed by our insurer when you:
• increase your level of Death, TPD or Income Protection cover
• decrease your waiting period or increase your benefit period for Income Protection.
When applying to increase your cover, change your benefit period or decrease your waiting period, you must provide evidence of your health. We’ll let you know whether our insurer accepts or declines your application after their assessment.
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Increasing cover after a life event without health evidence
You can apply to increase your cover without providing health evidence after certain life events. You can apply to increase your:
• Income Protection after getting a pay rise.
• Death and TPD cover after major life events like getting married, having a child, or buying a house.For more information and to apply, download the Life events and salary increase cover form (PDF, 638KB).
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What to consider when applying to increase your cover
• If you apply for and receive additional cover, you won’t be eligible to receive default cover in the future (Accumulation 1 members only).
• Additional cover generally commences on the date our insurer accepts your application for cover.
• If your application is accepted, it could be subject to conditions, restrictions, exclusions and/or loadings on your insurance premiums. These conditions will apply from the date your cover commences.
Cancelling your cover
You can reduce or cancel your cover at any time by:
• logging in to your online account and going to the ‘Insurance’ section, or
• completing the Changing your insurance cover form (PDF, 581 KB).
Changes to your cover take effect from the date we receive notice of your changes.
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Reinstating cancelled cover
We may cancel your cover if:
• your account has insufficient funds to pay your insurance premiums
• your account hasn’t received a contribution or rollover for 16 consecutive months
• you transferred from the DBD to either Accumulation 1 or Accumulation 2 and you’re under 25 or have an account balance of less than $6,000.If you want to reinstate cancelled cover, learn how to keep your superannuation insurance.
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Opting out of future cover
To opt out of default insurance cover being automatically applied to your Accumulation 1 account in the future, complete the Changing your insurance cover form (PDF, 581 KB).
• Opting out of future cover applies provided your member number doesn’t change.
• If you apply for cover in the future, you’ll need to provide health evidence that satisfies our Insurer.
Converting between age-based cover and fixed cover
In some cases, you may want to more closely manage how your insurance changes over time. In these situations, you may consider converting between age-based and fixed cover.
• With age-based cover, your level of cover changes based on your age.
• With fixed cover, your level of cover stays the same until you’re age 61. It then reduces until it ceases completely when you’re age 70.
To learn more about insurance changes, refer to the Insurance in your super booklet (PDF, 832 KB).
Have a question about keeping your insurance? Call 1800 331 685 8:30am–6pm (AEST) Monday to Friday or email us.