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Why do super funds make this crucial information so hard to find?

Noel Whittaker Money columnist October 8, 2025 — 4.01am Advertisement

You have often written about the death tax paid on the taxable component of your super if left to a non-dependent, but it is not easy to find the taxable component, at least from Hostplus. Prompted by your comments, I checked the member statement for 2024–25 for my pension account, but it does not appear; nor was it anywhere to be easily found within my member portal on the Hostplus website.

When I called Hostplus, I was told the information was not included in the member statement, nor was it available on the website, but only upon specific request. As it turns out, the information is on the w

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