What is a transition to retirement pension?
Access some of your super while you’re still working.
What is a TTR pension?
A transition to retirement (TTR) pension allows you to supplement your income by allowing you to access some of your super once you’ve reached age 60.
What are the benefits?
- Cut back your working hours and replace lost income with a TTR pension payment.
- TTR pension payments are tax-free.
- Investment earnings are generally taxed at a maximum rate of 15%.
How do they work?
- A TTR pension generally allows you to access your super as pension payments only, that is, you cannot generally access lump sum amounts.
- For TTR pensions in the pre-retirement phase, the minimum pension payment is 4% up to a maximum 10% of your account balance as at 1 July of each financial year or the value from the date your TTR pension started in that financial year. The minimum payment percentage is pro-rated in the first financial year.
Important things to consider
- You’ll need to keep a super account open to accept employer contributions (or any other contributions) as these can’t be contributed directly to a pension account.
- TTR pensions don’t hold any insurance cover. This means you may want to keep any personal insurance you have connected to your super account.
- TTR pensions will enter retirement phase when certain events occur and the pension balance will be included in your transfer balance cap.
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