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Owen Raskovich

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Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

Okay.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

Well, that's number one.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

So number one is paying down debt.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

Kate, what's number two?

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

Yeah.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

So one way you can consolidate super funds is to pick the super fund that you're going with.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

And during that onboarding process, when you sign up, they will often ask you, would you like us to consolidate your super for you?

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

another way to do it is to go to the mygov website and this is the we've mentioned this website quite a few times it's like the centralized website for all finance related things associated with the government so you have the ato you have your hex debt and all your study stuff you have your super things medicare for older people you might have um like your pension um and even dhs stuff it can all be found on the mygov website and that's a really convenient way

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

To just bring it all together because you effectively can just go in there and just say consolidate and it will do it for you.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

So that's a really good way to do it.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

Obviously, we've covered how to pick a super fund, the types of insurance that you can have inside super and how to think about that before you change and also how you can get advice.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

So again, it's really simple to do.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

It's free to do.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

You just really need to just get out there, make it your goal for this week or today even after you hear this podcast.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

Just give it a shot.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

Yeah.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

So if you do discover that something has gone wrong, probably the best place to go is to your employer.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

If you have a HR team, if you're in that type of organization or speak to your manager about it, it could just be an issue like an administrative issue.

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

If it's persistent, so you think you've made the changes, but perhaps it still isn't showing up in your super account when you log in or through myGov every three months, then you probably need to have a hard conversation with your employer or

Australian Finance Podcast
6 Things You Must Do With Your Finances in 2020

file a complaint with the ato and that's probably a signal too for you maybe that it's time to leave the employer because if they can't pay your insurance i mean not your insurance rather your super it means they're not doing what's legally required so they might be the business itself might be in trouble or simply might not value your time and effort so maybe it's time to look elsewhere