Employer Super insurance options
Helping to protect your future
IOOF Employer Super gives you access to comprehensive insurance that can be customised to suit your needs or default cover with automatic acceptance limits and no health checks
Features and benefits
- High maximum benefit levels
- Cover available to age 75 for death and age 67 for TPD cover
- Three month waiting period for TPD benefits
- No waiting period for 18 medical conditions on TPD benefits
- Terminal illness benefit
- Any insurance cover held in IOOF Employer Super may continue in IOOF Personal Super when you leave your employer.
Default cover
Members may receive death and TPD default level of cover based on their age, gender and occupation once their account balance reaches $6,000 and are age 25 or over. Members can elect to add insurance to their account prior to this by completing a ‘Default insurance opt in’ form. Full details are available in the IOOF Employer Super Product Disclosure Statement and Insurance Guide.
You can amend your insurance arrangements at any time by completing an Application for Insurance form.
Not enough cover? Customise it
If you don't have enough cover, IOOF Employer Super allows you to customise your insurance to suit your circumstances at any time. There are three ways to increase or change your cover, outlined below.
You can apply for an increase in your cover if one of the following life events occurs:
- you marry or divorce
- you enter into or cease a de-facto relationship
- you complete your first undergraduate degree at an Australian university
- the birth or adoption of your child
- your dependant child starts secondary school
- you take out a mortgage to purchase or renovate your primary home
- you can increase your income protection cover if you had a recent salary increase.
To apply for an increase and to check the conditions that apply, please refer to the Product Disclosure Statement and complete the Insurance Application – Life Events and Salary Increase form.
If you have insurance cover with another super fund or in a retail policy, you may be able to transfer it to your IOOF Employer Super account. This cover will be added on top of any existing cover you hold.
To apply to transfer your insurance and to check the conditions that apply, please refer to the Product Disclosure Statement and the Transferring your Insurance Cover into IOOF Employer Super form.
Customised
You can tailor your insurance by modifying your existing cover or add any new insurance at any time.
- Increase your death only cover
- Increase your death and TPD cover1
- Vary your income protection by changing the options2:
- Wait period of 30, 60 or 90 days.
- Benefit period of two years, five years or to age 65.
To apply for an increase and to check the conditions that apply, please refer to the Product Disclosure Statement and the Application for insurance form.
1 The maximum benefit for TPD and terminal illness cover is $5 million, however death cover has no limit.
2 The maximum benefit for income protection is 75 per cent of your declared earned income (plus up to 12 per cent of your declared earned income as a super contribution), not exceeding $30,000 per month.