Single with no dependants and cited nieces or nephews as beneficiaries if you die? You’ll need to take more action to make sure they’re the ones who get it.
Edwina Pickles
It means that, generally, if you’re a single person without children, you can’t simply nominate siblings, friends or even your parents by filling in the death benefit form on your superannuation fund’s website. “I had my will on my desk, and it said in big letters ‘The last will and testament of Maya Ivanovic’. My partner came over ... and he actually picked up my notebook and put it on top of it because he didn’t want to see it or think about it.”
If you list your legal personal representative as your binding death benefit nomination, your superannuation death benefit will then form part of the estate. To do this, you need to list “legal personal representative” on your superannuation fund’s death benefit nomination form.
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