{"id":1158,"date":"2022-04-21T04:14:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T04:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2022-04-21T04:14:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T04:14:18","slug":"government-intervention-in-super-a-low-priority-for-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/government-intervention-in-super-a-low-priority-for-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Government intervention in super a \u2018low priority\u2019 for consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Access to healthcare and the cost of living rank higher, according to a recent survey.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/acctweb.com.au\/images\/fp-Gov intervention.jpg\" width=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has released consumer research that found Australians did not consider changes to superannuation to be a top priority compared to other national issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a full list of national issues were prompted to respondents, [only] 2 per cent of Australians said that they would rank further regulation of the industry as a top priority,\u201d the ASFA research stated.<\/p>\n<p>When respondents were asked to give their priorities for the Australian government right now, only 4 per cent of respondents said they had concerns about their pensions and superannuation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring focus groups, participants said they did not feel changes to superannuation rules was a top priority, and that any concern was dwarfed by bigger concerns like climate change, the economic recovery, housing and the cost of living,\u201d the research report said.<\/p>\n<p>When provided with a full list of national issues, the top-ranking issue was improving access to healthcare and reducing wait times, followed by reducing the cost of everyday living.<\/p>\n<p>The research also indicated that a majority of respondents did not support early access to super.<\/p>\n<p>Almost two-thirds of respondents, or 63 per cent, agreed that saving was hard, and therefore strict rules were needed to ensure that people have enough money to retire on.<\/p>\n<p>Just over half of Australians, or 58 per cent, stated that giving people access to their super undermines the fairness of the system.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Miranda Brownlee<\/p>\n<p>30 March 2022<\/p>\n<p>smsfadviser.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Access to healthcare and the cost of living rank higher, according to a recent survey.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}