Denied early access to my Super fund

@etta I'm in a similar battle. If I do live long enough to access my super I'll be able to afford a bottle of cheap wine and a takeaway meal. I haven't worked full time since August 2016 and have been receiving benefits so would qualify for hardship except that I did some work, as a cancer consumer rep, for a government agency which paid me for work I'd done over a month in one hit. Three months after I'd done it.

Anyway, because that pushed me past the Newstart threshold, for a fortnight, I'm back to square one and have to be destitute for another six months before I can apply for the release of 10% of my super. Which is not very much.

I can understand, to a point, medicos not wanting to sign off that you are going to cark it within two years. That's crystal ball stuff that doesn't work for many reasons. Six months, different story but, and this is the but, none of them want to be held to account if you lived for longer than expected and ripped your money out.

There are a couple of  avenues, financial hardship and the need to get at YOUR money to pay medical expenses. Unfortunately, most of the time you have to pay the bills then claim compensation--otherwise we would all be lining up for top shelf reconstructions then changing our minds when we have the money. Or so the reasoning goes.

It's exasperating.

Mxx