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Super Choice Rules: Changes from 1st November 2021
‘Stapling’ is the new thing in super from today for employers to be aware of.
A ‘stapled super fund’ is an existing super account which is linked – or ‘stapled’ – to an individual employee and follows them as they change jobs leading to less account duplication, lower fees, and a positive impact on their future super balance.
As an employer what do you need to do?
Basically, an extra step is now required where an employee doesn’t advise of the Super fund of their choice before you resort to paying super into the business’s default fund.
This is the approach to be taken from today:
Step 1: Offer your eligible employees a choice of super fund
You need to give your eligible new employees a Super standard choice form and pay their super into the account they tell you on the form. Most employees are eligible to choose what fund their super goes into. The most current version of the Super Choice Form can be found at
There is no change to this step of your super obligations.
Step 2: Request stapled super fund details
If your employee doesn’t choose a super fund, you may need to log into the ATO Online services and go to ‘Employee Super Accounts’ to request their stapled super fund details. Your agent or other tax professional can do this for you if you don’t have your own access.
The ATO will provide your employee’s stapled super fund details after they have confirmed that you are their employer.
If the ATO provide a stapled super fund result for your employee, you must pay your employee’s super using the stapled super fund details they provide you.
Step 3: Pay super into a default fund
- your employee doesn’t choose a super fund, and
- the ATO have advised you that they don’t have a stapled super fund.
How will the ATO select an employees stapled super fund?
The stapled super fund selection will be based on information the ATO holds about employees’ super funds.
If an employee has one existing eligible super account, this will be notified to their employer as the stapled super fund account for contributions.
To be a stapled super fund, the fund must meet a number of requirements. This includes an employee being a current member of the fund and it must be either a:
- complying superannuation fund
- retirement savings account
- complying superannuation scheme.
- whether the ATO has previously identified an account as a stapled super fund
- how recently contributions have been made to each of the accounts
- the account balances
- how recently each of the accounts were created.
The ATO have created a short video to help employees better understand stapled funds which can be found by scrolling to the bottom of the page at this link