Initiating one-off withdrawals and rollovers to your clients

On behalf of your client, you can initiate online withdrawal and rollover payments from your client's super accounts.

  • Withdrawal payments can be paid to either to your client’s nominated account or to another account of their choice.
  • Rollover payments can be paid out to either a self-managed super fund (SMSF) or an APRA-regulated super fund.

Please ensure relevant tax deduction claim forms have been submitted where your clients wish to claim a tax deduction before the withdrawal or rollover is submitted.

If the withdrawal results in your client accessing restricted/preserved benefits, you’ll need to select the early release of super declaration that applies for your client and upload supporting documents.

How to initiate a superannuation payment

To initiate a superannuation payment, simply click the Make a payment button from your client's account in Adviser Online.
 

Maximum amount available to withdraw or rollover for Advister Initiated Payments

  • You can initiate a single withdrawal of up to $500,000, or a single rollover for any amount. 
  • The maximum withdrawal or rollover amount that can be taken in one payment considers any applicable tax accruals on the account, and the available cash and portfolio balance. The amount left in the account after the withdrawal or rollover must meet the minimum balance requirements.
  • The maximum amount available for each request type:
    • Withdrawals: The lower value of the available cash balance, or the portfolio balance minus the product minimum. This amount may also be reduced by any tax accruals applicable on the account.
    • Rollovers: the lower value of the available cash balance, or the portfolio balance minus the product minimum. This amount may also be reduced by any tax accruals applicable on the account.
  • Once you’ve initiated a payment, you'll be able to initiate another online payment after three days.
  • There must be sufficient available cash in your client’s account for the payment to be made without any delays. If there isn’t enough cash available to make the payment, you’ll need to lodge asset sale orders before requesting the payment.

Requests that can't be completed digitally

Some requests won’t be able to be submitted through Adviser Online, for example withdrawals above $500,000. If you are unable to submit a request through Adviser Online, see Requests that can’t be completed digitally to find out more about how to proceed with these requests.

Approval for withdrawal and rollover payments

Your clients will need to approve all digital withdrawal or rollover payments from their super account via the Macquarie Authenticator app. Your client will receive a notification from the app with the payment details.

To complete registration for Authenticator, your client must enable push notifications and complete all of the steps in the training simulator to finalise their set up.

See Macquarie Authenticator for more information.

Please note you can only make one payment every three days.

To submit a withdrawal request

  1. Log in to Adviser Online
  2. Search for the client’s account using the global search bar
  3. Select Account Overview
  4. Select Make a payment
  5. Select the checkbox ‘I do not wish to claim a tax deduction for my client or if I do, I have already submitted one that has been processed by the Fund.’
  6. Select Next
  7. Select the payment type of Partial withdrawal
  8. Select the account to pay to, or enter new account details
  9. Enter the payment amount
  10. If accessing restricted/preserved benefits, select the early release of superannuation declaration that applies, and upload supporting documentation (if applicable)
  11. If the account contains funds transferred from the UK, enter any required details
  12. Select Review
  13. Confirm payment details then select Submit.

To submit a request to rollover to SMSF

Please note, you must use an approved SuperStream messaging provider for rollovers to an SMSF.

  1. Log in to Adviser Online 
  2. Search for the client’s account using the global search bar 
  3. Select Account Overview 
  4. Select Make a payment 
  5. Select the checkbox ‘I do not wish to claim a tax deduction for my client or if I do, I have already submitted one that has been processed by the Fund’. 
  6. Select Next 
  7. Select the payment type of Partial rollover 
  8. Select to rollover into SMSF 
  9. Enter the SMSF details including the account name, BSB, account number, ABN and electronic service address. For more information search “Electronic Service Address” on the ATO website.
  10. Select Verify. This will verify the SMSF details against the details held on file with the ATO 
  11. Enter the payment amount 
  12. If the account contains funds transferred from the UK, enter any required details 
  13. Select Review 
  14. Confirm payment details then select Submit.

To submit a request to rollover to APRA-regulated fund

  1. Log in to Adviser Online 
  2. Search for the client’s account using the global search bar 
  3. Select Account Overview 
  4. Select Make a payment 
  5. Select the checkbox ‘I do not wish to claim a tax deduction for my client or if I do, I have already submitted one that has been processed by the Fund’. 
  6. Select Next 
  7. Select the payment type of Partial rollover 
  8. Select to rollover into APRA-regulated super fund 
  9. Enter the Unique Superannuation Identifier (USI) of the APRA fund and select Search. The details of the APRA fund will be populated. 
  10. Enter the client’s account/policy/membership number 
  11. Enter the payment amount 
  12. If the account contains funds transferred from the UK, enter any required details 
  13. Select Review 
  14. Confirm payment details then select Submit.

Approvals via the Macquarie Authenticator app

To complete registration for Authenticator, your client must enable push notifications and complete all of the steps in the training simulator to finalise their set up.

Your client will receive a notification from the app with the payment details when you submit the request. They can approve or deny the request directly from the app.

Notifications can also be re-sent from Request Centre.

View status of approvals

You can view the status and progress of payments in Request Centre. This includes payments awaiting client approval via the Macquarie Authenticator app.

Tax on Adviser Initiated Payments for superannuation

For clients under the age of 60, tax may apply on payments. All amounts selected will be net of any applicable tax.

In other words, the amount you choose will be the amount they receive in their bank account. This means the amount that is withdrawn from their account may be higher.

If your client is aged 60 or over at the time of the payment, tax is not applicable.

How long it takes for your client to receive the funds

If there is enough available cash in the account to make the payment, your clients will generally receive the funds in one to three business days. This may be impacted by your client’s financial institution.

In some instances, the amount of available cash at the time of the request will be higher than when we attempt to make the payment. This could happen if an investment trade is placed around the time of the payment request. 

In this situation, it will take longer for your client to receive the proceeds as we’ll need to wait for cash to become available again. 

We recommend not placing any trades if you intend to initiate these payments to avoid any delays.

Amend or cancel an Adviser Initiated Payment

Once created, payment requests can't be amended after they have been created. If you want to cancel a payment created via Adviser Online, you can do this from Request Centre while the request is ‘Awaiting client approval’.

To cancel a payment: 

  1. Log in to Adviser Online
  2. Navigate to Request Centre
  3. Search for the request using approval ID, account name or account number
  4. Select the action menu
  5. Select Cancel payment.

The payment will be cancelled. If the approval method was 'Authenticator app', the notification sent to your client will disappear.

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