State Government's superannuation reform
Your Future, Your Super
In December 2024, changes to the State Superannuation Act 2000 passed WA Parliament. This is the legislation that governs how GESB manages the Government Employees Superannuation fund and administers public sector super schemes.
These changes came into effect as of 12 May 2025 and enable GESB to align with the Australian Government’s Your Future, Your Super reforms implemented in the wider super industry to help Australians maximise their super and retirement.
The primary change facilitates the stapling of superannuation accounts so that they can follow an employee when changing jobs.
Stapling has also been enabled for GESB members. This means eligible members can have a GESB Super account that follows them when they change employment. It also allows GESB to accept contributions into a GESB Super account from employers who are not part of the WA State Government sector.
This change eliminates the need for members to create an account with another super fund, meaning that they can keep all their super with GESB, if they choose.
Protecting Your Super
In line with Australia’s Protecting Your Super (PYS) package reforms, changes to the State Superannuation Regulations 2001 came into effect as of 25 September 2024 to address account erosion due to excessive fees or unnecessary insurance.
We will now:
- Cancel insurance in GESB Super and West State Super accounts that have not received a relevant contribution for 16 months
- Transfer inactive low balance GESB Super and West State Super accounts to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO)
unless members notify us otherwise.
We will communicate with members if their account has not received a relevant contribution by letter, email and/or SMS, starting from June 2025.
MySuper
MySuper is a simple and cost‑effective super product that was introduced in 2012 as part of Australia’s Stronger Super reforms. MySuper was designed to improve retirement outcomes for members by providing a default product with a simple set of features, allowing members to compare super funds more easily based on cost, investment returns, and insurance.
The WA Treasurer published guidelines in December 2016 that set out the requirements for GESB’s MySuper products.
We renamed our default investment plans as ‘My West State Super’ and ‘My GESB Super’ for our West State Super and GESB Super default plans respectively.
View GESB’s MySuper product dashboard
Our member information and engagement activities, as well as our investment offerings, are continuously reviewed to ensure they are consistent with the WA Treasurer’s guidelines. Our Board includes a statement of compliance in our annual report.
SuperStream
The WA State Government adopted a State Policy on SuperStream Data Standards (the Standards) to comply with the Australian Government’s Stronger Super reforms. The objective of the Standards was to standardise payment methods, as a first step in moving Australian employers to the ATO’s Single Touch Payroll reporting system, which came into effect on 1 July 2018.
We assisted employers to meet the Standards and continue to provide guidance to reduce the time taken to process superannuation payments and lower transaction costs.
Choice of Super
Choice of Super was introduced for WA public sector employees on 30 March 2012.
We welcomed the introduction of choice and continue to support members to make informed decisions about their super by providing easy access to financial education and information resources.
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