Inactive Low-Balance Accounts transferred to ATO

The Australian Parliament has passed new legislation, the ‘Protecting Your Super’ package, which took effect on 1 July 2019.
The package includes several changes designed to reduce erosion of superannuation account balances. One of the changes may affect some FES Super members.
From 1 July 2019, non-defined benefit superannuation accounts with a balance under $6,000 must generally be transferred to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) unless the member’s account has in the previous 16 months:

• Received a contribution, rollover or automatic transfer from another fund,

• Made an investment choice,

• Changed their insurance cover,

• Made a binding beneficiary nomination, or

• Provided written notice to the ATO or to FESSuper that they do not want their FESSuper account to be transferred.

The first transfer to the ATO will be made on or before 31 October 2019.
If your account is identified as a low balance inactive account, we’ll contact you with information about how you can choose to stay with FESSuper.
Note the above change does not affect members with a defined benefit account.