The CSS Member Statement Guide
The CSS Member Statement Guide
The CSS Member Statement Guide
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<strong>The</strong> guide<br />
Use the following guide to help you navigate the different<br />
sections of your <strong>Member</strong> <strong>Statement</strong>.<br />
Contributing <strong>Member</strong> <strong>Statement</strong><br />
1 July 2012–30 June 2013<br />
Your benefit options Please refer to your <strong>Member</strong> <strong>Statement</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> for further explanation.<br />
Amounts on this <strong>Statement</strong> are based on information supplied by employers and may be subject to adjustment.<br />
Further information explaining parts of this <strong>Member</strong> <strong>Statement</strong> can be found in your <strong>Member</strong> <strong>Statement</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> provided in this pack.<br />
Your resignation benefit<br />
Your age retirement benefit<br />
Your details<br />
*Are your details incorrect? If so, please let your personnel section know.<br />
What you would have been<br />
What you would have been<br />
Name* Your options if you resign<br />
allocated on exit on 30/6/13Your contribution Your options rate at 30 if you June retire 2013*<br />
allocated on exit on 30/6/13<br />
1. Preserve total benefit<br />
1. CPI-indexed pension*<br />
in the <strong>CSS</strong><br />
(per year)<br />
Date of birth* Your employment status at 30 June 2013*<br />
(generally a deferred CPI-indexed<br />
Plus Deferred employer benefit<br />
Plus Lump sum<br />
pension entitlement)<br />
†<br />
Account (AGS) number<br />
Your hours per OR fortnight 2. CPI-indexed at 30 June pension* 2013*<br />
OR 2. Lump sum now <br />
(per year)<br />
Plus Lump sum paid into<br />
Plus Non-indexed pension<br />
Remember to quote your a AGS rollover number fund when making enquiries about your superannuation.<br />
(per year)<br />
Your superannuation salary at 30 June 2013*<br />
Tax File Number provided*<br />
If you have not reached your preservation age at claim date, payment of your lump Plus Lump sum †<br />
sum will be limited to the amount of your SIS upper limit. <strong>The</strong> remainder will<br />
Based on your salary remain and recognised preserved allowances in a rollover at your institution most recent until birthday. you reach For members your preservation working age. OR 3. Lump sum † (ex-provident<br />
part-time, the salary shown is the amount you would receive if you were working full-time.<br />
account members only)<br />
Your membership commenced on*<br />
Your period of contributory membership<br />
* A pension adjusted twice-yearly, based on increases in the Consumer Price<br />
Index (CPI).<br />
Rate of allotment of net earnings 1/7/12 to 30/6/13 #<br />
# See page 1 of the <strong>Member</strong> <strong>Statement</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> for an explanation of the calculation of this rate.<br />
† Includes productivity if administered by ComSuper, any super co-contributions<br />
<strong>CSS</strong> investment and transfer amounts. 1 year to 5 years to 10 years to<br />
option performance 30 June 2013 30 June 2013 30 June 2013<br />
Default Fund 13.6% 3.3% 6.8%<br />
Cash Investment Option 2.8% 3.7% 4.4%•<br />
This is important<br />
<strong>The</strong> information in this <strong>Member</strong> <strong>Statement</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> (MSG) is general<br />
information only and has been prepared without taking into account your<br />
personal objectives, financial situation or needs. You should consider any<br />
advice in this MSG in light of your personal objectives, financial situation<br />
or needs before acting on it.<br />
You may wish to contact a licensed financial planner to do this. If you are<br />
looking at acquiring a financial product, you should obtain a product<br />
disclosure statement (PDS) and consider its contents before making<br />
any decisions.<br />
This document is part of your periodic statement for your <strong>CSS</strong> super<br />
account and was prepared on 15 August 2013 by the Commonwealth<br />
Superannuation Corporation (CSC) ABN: 48 882 817 243 AFSL: 238069<br />
RSEL: L0001397, Trustee of the <strong>CSS</strong> ABN: 19 415 776 361 RSE: R1004649.<br />
<strong>The</strong> components of your periodic statement are the <strong>Member</strong> <strong>Statement</strong>,<br />
Transaction Summary and <strong>Member</strong> <strong>Statement</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> (MSG).<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2012–13 Annual Report will be available online at css.gov.au<br />
We are required to provide you with any additional information you<br />
may reasonably need to understand your investment in the <strong>CSS</strong>,<br />
including your benefit entitlements (such as death and invalidity benefits).<br />
Details of investment options that may be available to you are also available<br />
on request from CSC. To access or request this information, please contact<br />
us as set out in the Contact us section of this MSG.<br />
<strong>The</strong> invalidity and death benefits provided below are the default options provided • Please by note the <strong>CSS</strong> that the that cash are investment payable to option either commenced you or your on dependants. 1 December 2004 Please and refer this to your <strong>Member</strong><br />
<strong>Statement</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> to see if there are any other benefit options available to you. <strong>The</strong><br />
figure<br />
below<br />
reflects<br />
amounts<br />
the performance<br />
have been<br />
from<br />
calculated<br />
1 December<br />
assuming<br />
2004 to 30<br />
that<br />
June<br />
your<br />
2013.<br />
benefit would not be reduced<br />
All returns are calculated as the compound average rate of earnings after fees and taxes.<br />
because of the application of a BCC.<br />
Be aware that long-term performance figures outlined above are for the investment options<br />
as a whole and are not your personalised investment returns in <strong>CSS</strong>.<br />
Your benefit if you are retired on invalidity<br />
Your death benefit<br />
Your super details<br />
Your options if you become<br />
What you would have been<br />
an invalid<br />
allocated on exit on 30/6/13<br />
Your value in the Fund is made up of the following components:<br />
Maximum pension<br />
Benefit component<br />
What you would<br />
Contributions/<br />
Plus Lump sum<br />
have been allocated<br />
Amounts received<br />
on exit on 1/7/12<br />
1/7/12 to 30/6/13<br />
1. Your member component<br />
consisting of basic contributions and earnings<br />
Your eligible spouse’s option if<br />
What would have been<br />
you die<br />
allocated on exit on 30/6/13<br />
Maximum pension<br />
Fund<br />
What you would have<br />
Plus Lump sum earnings<br />
been allocated on<br />
1/7/12 to 30/6/13<br />
exit on 30/6/13<br />
OR<br />
Lump sum payable to your estate<br />
and supplementary contributions and earnings<br />
2. Your productivity component<br />
3. Super co-contributions<br />
4. Transfer amounts<br />
5. Total equity (1+2+3+4)<br />
Other important information<br />
Benefit classification certificate (BCC)<br />
Superannuation guarantee top up<br />
Contributions paid since 30/6/07<br />
Your preservation age<br />
Minimum amount on exit<br />
Your SIS upper limit<br />
Ex-provident account member Your preserved benefit at 30/6/13<br />
Restricted units Your restricted non-preserved benefit at 30/6/13<br />
Rejected units Your unrestricted non-preserved benefit at 30/6/13<br />
Age 60 units<br />
Investment option<br />
Your surcharge debt Your total surcharge debt from the Australian Taxation Office’s (ATO) assessment of your surchargeable contributions.<br />
Surcharge debt<br />
Surcharge debt incurred<br />
Payments<br />
Interest<br />
Surcharge debt<br />
at 1/7/12<br />
1/7/12 to 30/6/13<br />
1/7/12 to 30/6/13<br />
1/7/12 to 30/6/13<br />
at 30/6/13<br />
CCMSP2 2013<br />
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