Your questions: pros and cons of super

By George Cochrane
Updated January 25 2013 - 2:13pm, first published December 30 2012 - 3:00am

Your paper recently ran an article on how the government is raiding our nest eggs. My husband and I each have about $142,000 in a public super fund, from which we draw the minimal amount each month to supplement our part-pension. Should we leave our money in superannuation or transfer it to a long-term investment due to the current uncertainty around government policy? Would that affect our pension? The only other taxable current income we have is from Telstra and IGA shares that amounts to about $2000 a year. S.W.

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