Benefit estimates
Understand the benefits available to you when you leave work.
If you’re planning for retirement or thinking about claiming your benefit soon, you may be interested in requesting a benefit estimate.
Your estimate will help you to understand the options available to you and guide you in making a decision about claiming your benefit.
Estimate your benefit online
CSC’s Retirement Calculator – the i-Estimator – is available to PSS & MilitarySuper members via the CSC Navigator.
Estimate your net income in retirement
View a snapshot of your estimated income over time
Compare both pension and lump sum amounts
Compare your current net salary with your net pension to see at what age you might retire comfortably
Did you know?
PSS & MilitarySuper members can now download a formal benefit estimate from CSC Navigator.
Our i-Estimator has been updated to use live data, so it’s the same as getting an estimate from us over the phone.
CSS estimates
If you are a CSS member, we’ll provide you with a benefit estimate each year on your birthday, until you make a claim1.
1Some restrictions may apply.
CSS & DFRDB members can also call us to receive an estimate.
Here’s what you need to know before you call us, based on the type of benefit you are estimating:
CSS
Resigning from work (also known as 54/11)
Resigning from employment at least two calendar days before your 55th birthday2.
To supply an estimate, we will need:
- The date you intend to retire. Please note, we can’t provide an estimate for a date beyond 12 months away.
- Your super salary at your next birthday, if you will have a birthday before you intend to retire.
- Your final salary
Call us to request an estimate.
2Or from age 50 if an Air Traffic Controller with Airservices Australia.
Age retirement
Resigning from work from age 553.
To supply an estimate, we will need:
- The date you intend to retire. Please note, we can’t provide an estimate for a date beyond 12 months away.
- Your super salary at your next birthday, if you will have a birthday before you intend to retire.
- Your final salary
Call us for a benefit estimate.
3Or from age 50 if an Air Traffic Controller with Airservices Australia.
Transition to Retirement (TTR)
If you have previously initiated a TTR, are still in eligible employment and have reached preservation age.
To supply an estimate, we will need:
- The date you intend to retire. Please note, we can’t provide an estimate for a date beyond 12 months away.
Call us for a benefit estimate.
Redundancy
A Redundancy benefit may apply if you are being made redundant, retrenched, or dismissed from employment at any age.
To produce a redundancy estimate, we will need:
- A Redundancy Benefit Estimate Request or Departmental Report from your employer indicating that redundancy applies.
- Your final salary
- Your birthday salary
- Your exit date
The information you supply must match the information supplied by your employer.
Call us to request an estimate.
DFRDB
Retirement
To supply an estimate, we will need:
- The date you intend to retire or transition from the ADF. An estimate can be run up to 5 years from your retirement date. If you don’t yet have a date in mind, we can provide an estimate from today’s date.
- Your rank at transition
- Your salary and pay increment at transition
- Your exit type
- Your commutation election
Call us to request an estimate.
Contact us for any other benefit type and we’ll guide you through it.
Claim your benefit
If it's time to claim your defined benefit, we're here to guide you through it.