How to pay your insurance premiums

You can choose to pay your insurance premiums in different ways. In some cases, premiums can be paid directly from superannuation or investment products offered by other providers. This table shows your payment options depending on the type of policy you have:

MLC Insurance (Super) and Protectionfirst range (inside super) MLC Insurance (Wrap or SMSF) and Protectionfirst range1 MLC Insurance and Protectionfirst range (outside super) MLC Personal Protection Portfolio   MLC Life Cover Super
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Credit card check
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Cheque (not available for monthly payments) check
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BPAY (not available monthly payments) check
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Rollover from an external super fund2 (available for annual payments only) check
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Eligible wrap account (see point A. below)

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Eligible MLC account (see point B. below) check (MLC Insurance (Super) only)
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1 For Protectionfirst range polices where you’ve selected to pay your premium through a wrap account or through your self-managed super fund (SMSF) account.
2 We can’t accept certain rollovers, such as pension or super amounts transferred from the UK or from New Zealand KiwiSaver, or untaxed amounts. It’s your responsibility to ensure these types of amounts do not form part of your benefit in your nominated external super fund account.

 

A. Paying from an eligible wrap account

MLC Life Insurance is an integrated insurer on multiple wrap platforms that investors and financial advisers use. This means MLC Insurance and Protectionfirst range policies can be paid for directly from the superannuation and investment products offered by a few selected providers external to MLC Life Insurance as follows:

Super wrap accounts eligible to pay for MLC Insurance (Wrap or SMSF) and Protectionfirst range1  Wrap accounts eligible to pay for MLC Insurance and Protectionfirst range (outside super)
  • Expand Extra Super
  • Expand Essential Super
  • IOOF Personal Super
  • Shadforth Portfolio Service – Super

Please refer to the relevant Product Disclosure Statement for the types of insurance that can be paid for from an eligible super wrap account.
  • Expand Extra Investment
  • Expand Essential Investment

If you wish to change your payment method to an eligible wrap account, we may need to cancel and reissue your existing policy. This option to pay your insurance premiums is not available to be updated through our digital portal.

 

B. Paying from an eligible MLC account

Important: An eligible MLC account is a super investment account from which MLC Insurance and MLC Life Cover Super premiums can be deducted. These super investment accounts are issued by NULIS Nominees (Australia) Limited and are held with the Insignia Financial Group of Companies. These accounts aren’t issued by MLC Life Insurance.

Eligible MLC accounts for MLC Insurance (Super) and MLC Life Cover Super

  • MLC MasterKey Super Fundamentals
  • MLC MasterKey Pension Fundamentals
  • MLC MasterKey Five star
  • MLC MasterKey Goldstar
  • MasterKey Super**
  • MasterKey Pension

In some instances, an MLC insurance policy will be issued under revised terms to align to super regulations.

Please refer to the relevant Product Disclosure Statement for the types of insurance that can be paid for from an eligible MLC account.

If you wish to change your payment method to an eligible MLC account, we may need to cancel and reissue your existing policy.

**MLC MasterKey Business Super and MLC MasterKey Personal Super are not part of MasterKey Super and can’t fund a MLC Insurance (Super) or MLC Life Cover Super policy.