
Your line duties, how your pay is made up and any cover from the job each shape the cover that suits you. We help you compare cover, check any cover you hold now and lodge any claim with you.





What we advise on
Which bills would still need paying if illness or injury meant time away from line work?
Income protection can pay part of your income after a waiting period, helping you keep up with regular costs.
Together, we’ll compare income protection around the way your line work is paid and the hours it involves.
If illness or injury stops you working, income protection can pay part of your income once a waiting period has passed, under the policy’s definitions. Insurers usually base the benefit on what you earned in the 12 months before the illness or injury, and each policy sets its own meaning of income and of disability. Waiting periods usually range from 14 days to 2 years, and a benefit can be paid for a set time or to an age.
What we work through with you on income protection:
What would your loved ones have to draw on if you were no longer here?
Life cover can pay a lump sum to your beneficiaries towards debts, everyday living and the plans you have for them.
We’ll work out a life cover amount with you, counting any debts, everyday costs and any cover in super.
Life insurance can pay a lump sum to your beneficiaries if you pass away, and some policies also include a terminal illness benefit. Life insurers usually ask about your age and job when you apply. Where no beneficiary is named, your estate or the super trustee may decide where the money goes.
What we work through for life cover:
Which of your plans would still need funding if you could never work again?
A TPD lump sum can go towards debts and longer-term goals if you can’t work again, as the policy defines it.
We can read each policy’s TPD definitions with you against line work and the other roles your experience could suit.
TPD cover can pay a lump sum if illness or injury means you’re unlikely to work again, as the policy defines it. Own occupation looks at the job you did, while any occupation looks at any job suited to your education, training or experience. Own occupation cover is usually only available outside super, and whether it’s offered can depend on the insurer and your occupation. TPD cover in super usually ends at an age set in the fund’s insurance terms.
What we compare with you for TPD:
How could treatment costs and time away from line work both be met if you were diagnosed with a serious condition?
Trauma cover can pay a lump sum towards treatment for a listed condition that meets the policy’s definition and isn’t excluded.
We’ll explain what a trauma policy lists and how a lump sum could sit beside income protection.
A trauma policy lists the illnesses and serious injuries it covers, and can pay a lump sum for one that meets its definition and isn’t excluded. Medical definitions can be different between insurers. New trauma cover can’t be held inside super, which has been the rule for policies written since 1 July 2014.
What we read with you in a trauma policy:
Does any cover in your super fit the line work you do today?
Going through your super together can show what cover is there, and which parts are worth keeping for the work you do.
Together, we’ll read the insurance in any super fund and set out any changes in a financial plan, or Statement of Advice.
Default cover inside super can usually be issued without medical checks, though it may carry pre-existing condition rules set out in the fund’s PDS, and increasing it is usually underwritten like any other application. Members under 25 or with low balances usually need to ask for cover, unless they work in a dangerous job and the fund gives automatic cover.
What we look at in your super with you:
With network and contractor roles both part of line work, how could your cover keep pace with a job change?
Knowing what any cover through an employer includes, and where it stops, can help you plan any personal cover around it.
We can map what comes with a network, contractor, labour hire or ABN role, and compare personal cover for any gaps.
Workers compensation is separate, through a state, territory or Commonwealth scheme. Employers take it out for their employees. On a contract in your own name, including on an ABN, a business may have to pay your super if you’re paid mainly for your labour, for your own labour and skills rather than for a result, and you do the work yourself. A business contracting with your company, trust or partnership doesn’t have to pay super for whoever that entity employs.
What we map with you as employers change:
If you step into switching, planning, training or the control room, how could your cover move with you?
Reviewing cover at each step can help it stay in line with your new duties, hours and pay.
We’ll review your cover with you when your duties, hours and any on-call pay change.
Income protection is usually based on your earnings in the 12 months before the illness or injury, so any change in on-call pay can change the earnings a policy counts. Insurers usually ask about your job, and an any occupation TPD definition looks at work suited to your education, training or experience. If a fund has your occupation recorded wrongly, Moneysmart suggests contacting the fund. TPD cover in super usually ends at an age set in the fund’s insurance terms.
What we review with you as your role changes:
Who could handle the paperwork beside you if you ever need to make a claim?
Support with the forms and regular contact with the insurer, who assesses the claim, can make each stage clearer.
We’ll lodge the claim with you, gather what the insurer asks for and keep in touch while it makes its assessment.
If you bought cover through a financial adviser, Moneysmart suggests speaking to them first; otherwise start with the fund, the insurer or, for cover through work, your employer. An insurer can ask for medical reports, details of your work duties, including physical requirements, and the number of hours you work each week. The insurer assesses the claim. Complaints go to the insurer or, for cover in super, the fund, then to AFCA.
How we help with a claim:
Your work and your cover
This list isn’t complete, and nothing on it decides anything on its own. We start by learning about your situation, and any decision on cover is the insurer’s.
Your options
| A Ryker financial adviser | Directly from an insurer | An online broker or comparison site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type of advice | Personal advice Personal adviceAdvice tailored to you. Like most financial advice, it’s given under an Australian financial services licence.Personal, not general. General advice is a recommendation or opinion that doesn’t consider your circumstances. Personal advice is tailored to your objectives, financial situation and needs.In your best interests. When we give you personal advice, the law requires us to act in your best interests.In writing. You’ll usually receive a Statement of Advice that explains the strategies and cover recommended to you, and why.On the public register. Financial advisers who give personal advice on life insurance, super and investments must be on ASIC’s Financial Advisers Register. See our financial advisers on the register:Ray RegmiRicky (Rajiv) RegmiJack OinezaDean DesoukeyRyker’s financial advisers are authorised representatives of Synchron Advice Pty Ltd, AFSL 243313. | Usually general advice | Usually general advice |
| Advice that considers your health, family, work and goals | Yes, as part of your advice | Not with general advice | Not with general advice |
| Choice of insurers | A wide range | That insurer’s policies only | A panel of insurers, side by side |
| Help preparing your application | Yes, alongside you | The insurer’s own process | Varies |
| Advice on holding cover inside or outside super | Part of your advice | Not with general advice | Not with general advice |
| Support if you need to claim | Yes, we’re in your corner | The insurer’s claims team | Varies |
| Cost of advice | No cost for the initial conversation. Any advice after that is a paid service, with its scope and fee agreed with you in writing first. Choose: | No separate advice fee | No separate advice fee |














Your Line Duties Set Out
Any pole, EWP, live line or jointing work, and your weekly hours, described on any application.
Roster Pay Read Against the Policy
Any availability allowance, call-outs and overtime checked against each policy’s income definition.
Cover Through Work Mapped
Any package, agreement and fund cover listed with you, along with where each one may stop.
Cover Checked Before a Move
Any cover you hold looked at before a move to a network, contractor, labour hire or ABN role.
TPD Wording Read for Line Work
Each TPD definition read against line work and the roles you could move into, and whether own occupation is offered.
Cover Reviewed Off the Line
New duties, hours and pay looked at if you move into switching, planning or training.
Defined Benefits Read Before a Change
What any defined benefit fund provides for a partner or dependants, read before a change.
A Claim Lodged With You
Your claim lodged with you and followed up while the insurer assesses it.

Good advice on cover begins with the work you do. We’ll ask about your duties, the hours you keep, how your pay is made up and what you’d like your cover to do. Then we explain each option in plain language, take your questions as they come and go at whatever pace suits you. Our recommendations usually come to you in writing, so you can read them in your own time, and each decision is yours.
We share the paperwork with you too. With your consent, we can ask any super fund, or the provider of any cover through work, for the details of the cover it holds for you, prepare what an application needs and follow up with insurers while they assess it. You’re welcome to bring a partner or family member to any conversation. If a claim is ever needed, we’ll lodge it with you and keep you informed until the insurer decides.
Every financial decision impacts the next
Great advice starts with understanding the bigger picture. Every stage of life presents new opportunities and challenges, from buying property and changing careers to growing your family, planning for retirement and protecting what matters most. At Ryker, we help connect every piece of your financial world into one clear strategy.
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Ryker’s financial advisers are licensed to give personal advice under Synchron Advice’s Australian financial services licence (AFSL 243313). We start with you: your line work, your family, work, income, assets and goals. Then we recommend the types and amounts of cover that suit your life.
Work as a linesworker can involve poles, EWPs and work near energised network gear, an on-call roster with storm call-outs, and a network, contractor or labour hire employer. Each can shape how an insurer assesses an application and how a policy pays, so we look closely at your duties, hours and how your pay is made up.
With a financial adviser, you also have:
Going directly to an insurer can mean no separate advice fee, but you’ll only see that insurer’s policies, and you’ll generally receive general advice only, which doesn’t consider your personal circumstances.
Going through an online comparison site or broker, you may see more options side by side, but they also generally provide general advice only, which doesn’t consider your whole financial picture.
When we give you personal advice, the law requires us to act in your best interests, which we take personally. The insurer still decides whether to offer cover and on what terms.
We’re invested in your long-term success. What we do is personal, and we take it personally.
Your financial decisions connect, so we consider the parts of your financial life that are relevant to the advice you need:
This is how we help you make decisions today with your longer-term goals in view.
Everybody’s situation is different, so we listen first, understand what matters to you and explain your options clearly before we make a recommendation.
Answer each question the insurer asks, with care. Since 5 October 2021, the duty when applying for consumer life cover is to take reasonable care not to make a misrepresentation, which means answering the questions asked with reasonable care.
For a lineworker or powerline worker, that can mean setting out any pole climbing, EWP work, live line methods or underground jointing, how often each comes up and the hours you usually work, including any rostered availability. If you leave out important details, the insurer may change or cancel your cover or refuse a claim (Moneysmart).
We can help you prepare an application that describes your work clearly, and the insurer decides whether to offer cover and on what terms.
Each policy sets its own test. An own occupation definition looks at whether you could work in your usual job, while an any occupation definition looks at any job suited to your education, training or experience. Own occupation cover is usually only available outside super, and whether it’s offered can depend on the insurer and your occupation.
Line experience can suit roles such as switching, control room work, planning or training, so under an any occupation definition those roles may be part of what the insurer considers. The wording of any TPD cover you hold, inside or outside super, shows which test applies.
We can read each definition with you, and the insurer assesses any claim against its own terms.
Defined benefit funds differ, so the fund’s own rules and your latest statement are the place to start. Payments, tax and death benefits can vary between defined benefit funds.
Making changes, such as leaving the fund, may affect benefits for a partner or dependants, and you generally can’t rejoin a defined benefit fund once you leave. Understanding what the fund provides before any change gives you the full picture to decide from.
We can read the fund’s information with you alongside any other cover you hold, so you can see where each part fits. Any decision about the fund is yours.
Two separate kinds of cover can be involved. Workers compensation is handled through a state, territory or Commonwealth scheme. Employers take it out for their employees, so an employee hurt at work may be eligible, and the scheme decides under its own rules.
Any income protection you hold in your own name can pay part of your income after a waiting period if illness or injury stops you working, under the policy’s terms, and how a policy treats any workers compensation payments is set out in its wording. Any agreement cover for injury or illness outside work is another arrangement, with its own terms.
We can map any cover you hold with you, and lodge any claim on a personal policy with you alongside the scheme’s process.
A move like that is a natural time to review any cover you hold. Income protection is usually based on your earnings in the 12 months before the illness or injury, so if on-call pay or allowances drop away in the new role, the amount a policy could insure may change too.
Insurers usually ask about your job, and some policies only cover you if you work a minimum number of hours each week. Your new duties, your hours and how your occupation is recorded on any policy or fund are worth checking, and the insurer decides on any change to your terms.
We can work through those changes with you as the new role settles in.
Any cover that comes with a job is worth reading closely: what it covers, how long it pays, how it works out the amount and whether it may continue if you leave. Some arrangements cover only injury or illness outside work, and a work injury is handled separately, through workers compensation if you’re eligible.
Personal advice looks at the whole picture: your duties, hours, income, debts and any cover in super, then compares policies from a wide range of insurers. A personal policy is held on its own terms, separate from any employer.
We can read what comes with your job alongside the rest, so you can see where each one fits.
Your accountant and financial adviser bring different expertise to the same decisions. Your accountant can advise on tax reporting, structures and consequences; we help you plan how cashflow, debt, super, investments and protection work towards your goals. We can coordinate before important decisions.
What an accountant does
What a financial adviser does
Professional roles and authorisations matter. We provide financial advice within our authorisations and work with your accountant for specialist tax advice and lodgements.
Where they work together
Yes, and no policy knowledge is needed first. Whether you climb poles, joint cables or run a crew, the conversation starts with your line work and what matters most to you.
There’s no cost for the initial conversation. Any advice after that is a paid service, with its scope and fee agreed with you in writing first. If they’re handy, bring a recent payslip showing any call-outs, super statements, any defined benefit statement and anything you hold about cover through work. We’ll talk through the options and decide the next step with you.
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