{"id":2502,"date":"2025-07-18T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2502\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:13:08","slug":"can-i-stop-my-super-pension-and-then-restart-it-again-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2502\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I stop my super pension and then restart it again later?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: If an account-based pension was originally started with $2 million (matching the transfer balance cap) and has since grown to $2.2 million, what happens if the entire amount is rolled back into the accumulation phase? Specifically, what is the maximum amount that can then be used to start a new pension? Ian<\/p>\n<p>A: With the increase in the transfer balance cap for superannuation pensions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/wealth\/superannuation\/what-the-2-million-lifetime-cap-on-tax-free-super-means-20250708-p5mdak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">becoming $2 million from July 1<\/a>, starting a pension with this amount is now a realistic proposition.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Q: If an account-based pension was originally started with $2 million (matching the transfer balance cap) and has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-2502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}