Your insurance

Your super account could include cover if you're sick or injured and can't work, or provide financial support for your family if you die

Find out more about the cover offered to most active ElectricSuper Division 5 (accumulation) members.

You could have death cover, total and permanent disablement (TPD) cover and Disability Income Benefit (income protection) cover.

If you’re a retained member of ElectricSuper, your insurance offering is a bit different to what you had while you were an active member.

You may still be eligible for death, total and permanent disablement cover, as well as disability income benefit (income protection) and, depending on your situation, you may be able to request your insurance is continued from your active account.

Read more to learn about how your insurance changes when you move to a retained account – and find out when you need to apply for cover.

Do you have enough insurance?

While super funds typically provide a default level of cover, usually depending on your age or salary (or a combination of both factors), this might not be the right amount for your needs.

You might need more, or you might need less and could be paying for cover you don’t need!

Get more information to start thinking about whether your cover amount is right for you.

If you’re a spouse member, death and total and permanent disablement cover isn’t automatically provided on joining, so you’ll need to apply if you want some insurance cover.

Find out more about how, and the conditions that apply.

If you have gone through a big life event in the last 12 months, you could apply to increase your death and TPD cover by one level without having to provide additional health information.

If you have:

got married
taken out or increased your home mortgage
had a child
turned 30
turned 50

you could be eligible to apply. Use the Increase Insurance – Life Event form.

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If you want to learn more about what insurance through super might offer you, have a look at our Insurance In Your Super video

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Who gets your super if you die?

You might be surprised to discover that your super might not be automatically paid to the person you expect if you die. It might not go automatically to your spouse, nor even to your estate.

However, you can nominate who you want to receive your super if you die. It could give you and your loved ones some piece of mind.

Forms and page links

Here are some of the forms and other resources that might be useful when thinking about your insurance needs

Want to access our other forms, pages and calculators? See the Resources/Forms page.

Change your insurance - active Division 5 members

If you want to increase, decrease or cancel your insurance, start the process by completing this form.

Change your insurance - retained Division 5 members & spouse members

If you’re a spouse member or a retained member and want to increase, decrease or cancel your insurance, start the process by completing this form.

Level up your insurance when your life changes

If you have got married, had a child, taken out a mortgage, turned 30 or turned 50 in the last 12 months, you could apply to increase your insurance without providing health information

Add a beneficiary/ies

If you want to nominate who you want to receive your super when you die, complete the nomination of beneficiaries form.