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Membership

There are two main groups of contributors to MilitarySuper, those who transferred from the DFRDB and those who have become Members of MilitarySuper upon joining the ADF. There is also a small group of Members who had been receiving a DFRDB benefit, rejoined the ADF and elected to join MilitarySuper.

Contributors

At 30 June 2009, there were 51 655 contributors to MilitarySuper, 44 262 (86%) of whom were male and 7393 (14%) female. Table 11 shows the number of new entrants and exits and the total Membership at 30 June 2009. The table below shows the number of Contributing Members by years of service and by gender.

Contributor Composition
  Male Female Total
Membership at 30 June 2008
 42 513* 6842* 49 355
Plus new contributors
7516 929 8445
Less Members left the ADF
5767 378 6145
Membership at 30 June 2009
 44 262 7393 51 655

* The split between male and female Membership at 30 June 2008 does not accord with those in the 2007–08 report. Data quality fixes to the Scheme Administrator’s system have amended the status of females incorrectly recorded as males.

Male and Female contributors by years of service
Years of service Male Female All
0-9 32 896 4235 37 131
10-14 5459 2206 7665
15-19 3052 556 3608
>19 2855 396 3251
Total 44 262 7393 51 655
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New Members

There were 8445 new MilitarySuper Members in 2008–09.

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Exits

There were 6145 exits from MilitarySuper during the year. The types of exit are shown below.

Modes of exit in the past five years
  2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
Age Retirement
80 51 90 143 262
Resignation
 2299 2110 2057 3523 1081
Redundancy
 5 6 4 6 9
Invalidity retirement
456 450 395 718 633
Death
 19 17 25 55 108
Unclaimed*
 1840 3135 3291 2803 4008
Other#
         44
Total
 4699 5769 5862 7248 6145

* Unclaimed benefits relate to Members who have left the ADF but have not submitted a benefit application instruction form regarding their benefits in the Scheme. The benefits are preserved in the Scheme if no claim is made within 90 days. In previous years, these benefits were shown as ‘Other’.
# Includes early release of benefits due to hardship

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Preserved Benefit Members

There were 75 929 Preserved Benefit Members in MilitarySuper as at 30 June 2009 compared with 72 812 Preserved Benefit Members as at 30 June 2008. The chart below shows the growth of Preserved Benefit Members during 2008–09.

Growth in preserved benefit Member population in the past five years

Growth in preserved benefit member population in the past five years

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Pensioners

There were 7227 pensioners in MilitarySuper as at 30 June 2009. The chart below shows the growth of pensioners since 30 June 2005.

Growth in pensioner population in the past five years

Growth in pensioner population in the past five years


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