Backpacker Superannuation

Working Holiday Super

Superannuation is the government pension scheme in Australia. Generally, if you’re earning more than $450 per month in Australia, your employer is required to contribute the equivalent of 9.5% of your income to a superannuation fund for you. *

Backpacker Superannuation

Working Holiday Super is a superannuation account specifically tailored with backpackers in mind.

A Working Holiday Super account has these key benefits:

  1. Competitive cost
  2. Easy online set up
  3. Designed especially for Working Holiday Makers

Backpackers have different requirements to Australian residents whose superannuation is generally to provide for their retirement.

Backpackers working in Australia are generally in Australia for temporary periods up to two years and when departing Australia are entitled generally entitled to file for a refund of their superannuation. With this in mind Working Holiday Super has developed a simple online process for consolidating all super accounts and have also teamed up with Taxback.com to ensure that the super refund process at the end of your Working Holiday Visa is easy.

If you have just arrived in Australia and need to set up a super account or if you have been here for some time and need to find where all your super is – Working Holiday Super can help. Register today and join other Working Holiday Makers who have opted for the account that was created with their needs in mind.

If you are coming towards the end of your stay, we can help you with your superannuation refund.

Backpacker Superannuation

*you can claim super benefits you have accumulated while working in Australia if all of the follow apply:

(1) you visited on the temporary visa (excluding visa subclasses 405 and 410)

(2) your visa has ceased to be in effect

(3) you have left Australia.

Interests in Working Holiday Super, an investment option in the Max Super Fund (ABN 22 508 720 840), are issued by Tidswell Financial Services Limited (ABN 55 010 810 607, AFSL 237628, RSE L0000888.Before deciding to acquire or continue to hold this product you should consider the Product Disclosure Statement that is available here. Before making decisions you should consider how appropriate they are given your own objectives, financial situation and needs, because this website has been prepared without taking these into account. This advertisement is provided by Como Financial Services PTY Ltd (ABN 74 101 393 435 AFSL 289890) the promoter of Max Super.