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If you think your employer is not paying the correct amount of super, follow these steps.
Step 1: Are you entitled to super?
Determining if you are entitled to super can be a complex question. We've developed the 'Am I entitled to super?' tool to provide guidance about the status of a worker.
After answering some questions about the working arrangement between you and your employer, you'll receive a decision advising whether you're entitled to super from that employer.
If you believe you're not an employee, your employer is not required to contribute super for you.
If you believe you're an employee you may be entitled to super from your employer. Go to step 2.
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Step 2: Has the correct super payment been made into the right fund?
Check your super contributions by:
- visiting ATO online via your myGovExternal Link account to view the super contributions that have been paid into your nominated super fund
- contacting your employer to ask them:
- how much they've paid.
- which fund they've paid it to.
- checking your member statement from your super fund.
If you're satisfied that your minimum super entitlements have not been paid, go to Step 3.
Step 3: Calculate your super entitlements
You can view online the amount of super your employer is required to pay for your minimum super entitlement, as well as the payments received by your super fund.
If you know how much super hasn't been paid and the period it relates to, go to Step 4.
If you're unsure, use the Estimate my super calculator to establish your entitlement. If you believe you haven't been paid the correct super, then go to Step 4.
Step 4: Report unpaid super
If you've confirmed you're super hasn't been paid in full and completed all of the checks in the above steps, then you can report your employer.
We'll keep you updated on the investigation, including any recovery actions we might be taking.
https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Super/In-detail/Growing-your-super/Unpaid-super/
The government has overall tightened this reporting system up and if the employer is up to date with government regulations should be just a formality now.
About Single Touch Payroll
https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/Single-Touch-Payroll/In-detail/Single-TouchPayroll-employer-reporting-guidelines/?page=2
Last modified: 24 Sep 2019
QC 54550
Single Touch Payroll (STP) is a change to the way you report your employee's tax
and super information to the ATO.
Single Touch Payroll was legislated in the Budget Savings (Omnibus) Act 2016.
Employers with 20 or more employees were required to start reporting from 1 July
2018.
Parliament has now passed legislation to extend Single Touch Payroll (STP)
reporting to include all small employers (those with fewer than 20 employees) from
1 July 2019.
How Single Touch Payroll works
Each time you pay your employees you will also be sending your employee salary
and wage information, pay as you go (PAYG) withholding and super information to
the ATO through an STP enabled software or solution. These will be year-to-date
amounts.
We have provided detailed tables in this document outlining mandatory reporting
under STP, voluntary reporting, and payments that are out of scope and cannot be
reported through STP.
Single Touch Payroll is part of the Australian Government's commitment to
streamlining employer reporting obligations. It was legislated on 16 September 2016
as part of the Budget Savings (Omnibus) Act 2016 .
https://www.ato.gov.au/misc/downloads/pdf/qc54550.pdf?=primary_button
