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Sorry for going OT and 'extreme', and upsetting you jaycee :D. My understanding is if you resign between 55 and 60 you can collect your super, but you can keep working on reduced hours (semi retire) you can collect some super as well - transition to retirement...

The aged pension, and the age you can collect super, are 2 different ages. My understanding is super can be collected between 55 and 60. My husband has around 85K that can be collected at age 55 (in 3 years), but even that can probably be collected sooner, if he states he has chronic...

Agree, the old ones were great (I'm with an old one and can retire at 55 :)). The crappy public service ones they have now are only marginally better than the industry funds, but over a lifetime of contributions, especially if in a well paid job, and if a small contribution is paid by the...

I think so to, especially as some of the industry (and government) super funds have sickness & accident and death built into them, and charge very low fees. Even those who I work with on the 'crappy' government super schemes, who have not contributed themselves, have amounts decent enough to...