
Electrical work, how you’re employed or contracted, and any cover through your job or super all shape how personal cover works for you. We can help you compare cover, check any cover you hold and lodge a claim with you.





What we advise on
What could keep part of your pay coming in if illness or injury took you away from the tools?
Income protection can pay part of your income after a waiting period, so the household budget can keep running in the meantime.
Together, we’ll compare income protection around how your electrical work is paid and the duties it involves.
Income protection can replace part of your income if illness or injury stops you working, after a waiting period and subject to the policy’s definitions. The benefit is usually based on your earnings in the 12 months before the illness or injury, and each policy has its own definitions of income and disability. Waiting periods can run from 14 days to 2 years, and benefits can be paid for a set number of years or to an age.
What we work through with you on income protection:
Could your loved ones meet the costs your income covers now if you were no longer here?
A lump sum paid to your beneficiaries can help your loved ones with debts, everyday costs and the plans you share.
We can add up any debts, everyday costs and any cover in super with you to set a life cover amount.
Life insurance can pay a lump sum to your beneficiaries if you pass away, and some policies include a terminal illness benefit. Life insurers usually ask about your age and job when you apply. If no beneficiary is named, your estate or the super trustee may decide who receives the payment.
What we work through for life cover:
What would fund your plans if you could never work again?
TPD cover can pay a lump sum towards debts and longer-term goals if you can’t work again, as the policy defines it.
Together, we’ll read each TPD definition a policy offers against licensed electrical work and the roles your trade could suit.
A TPD policy can pay a lump sum when illness or injury leaves you unlikely to work again, under the policy’s own definition. Own occupation looks at your usual job, 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 work be met if you were diagnosed with a serious illness?
Trauma cover can pay a lump sum towards costs for a listed condition that meets the policy’s definition and isn’t excluded.
We’ll explain the conditions a trauma policy lists, and how a lump sum would sit beside income protection.
A trauma policy lists the critical illnesses and serious injuries it covers, and can pay a lump sum when one meets the policy’s 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:
Could your super already be providing cover for the electrical work you do?
Reading each fund together can show any cover you hold, and help you keep what suits your work.
We can check any cover in your super 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. Some funds also give members income protection by default, on the fund’s own terms.
What we look at in your super with you:
When you work for yourself, what would replace part of the set amount you pay yourself if you couldn’t work?
Cover you own, such as income protection, can pay part of your income after a waiting period, giving you time to adjust.
We can compare and apply for personal cover with you before you go out on your own, or soon after you start.
Workers compensation is generally an employer’s insurance for its employees, through a state, territory or Commonwealth scheme. If a business contracts with you as an individual, it may have to pay your super when you’re paid mainly for your labour, for your own skills rather than a result, and you do the work yourself. A contract made with your company, trust or partnership is different: the business doesn’t have to pay super for whoever that entity employs.
What we look at with you on an ABN:
As your pay steps up through the apprenticeship, how could cover be set up to grow with you?
Starting cover early and reviewing it at each step can help it keep up with your pay and your licence.
We can look at cover with you as an apprentice and review it at each pay step through to your licence.
Apprentice pay generally steps up with each year of training, and income protection is usually based on your earnings in the 12 months before an illness or injury. Cover in super usually doesn’t start automatically for a new member under 25, or with a low balance, unless they ask for it, or their fund gives automatic cover for a dangerous job. As an employee, an apprentice may be eligible for workers compensation for an injury at work.
What we plan with you through the apprenticeship:
Who could help you through each step if you ever need to make a claim?
Lodging a claim with you and following it up with the insurer can give you more time for everything else.
We’ll lodge a claim with you and stay in contact with the insurer while it assesses the claim.
Moneysmart suggests speaking first to whoever you arranged the cover through, whether that’s the fund, the insurer, a financial adviser or, for cover through work, your employer. An insurer can ask for medical reports, details of your work duties, including physical requirements, and the hours you work each week, along with payslips or tax returns. The insurer assesses the claim. A complaint goes first to the insurer or, for cover in super, the fund, then to AFCA if unresolved.
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 Electrical Duties Set Out
Any work at height or live work, and your weekly hours, described in full on any application.
Cover From Work and Super Mapped
Workers compensation, any agreement cover and any cover in each fund listed with where each one stops.
Pay and Allowances Set Out
Your rate, allowances and any overtime set out clearly for an income protection application.
Cover Checked Before Your First ABN
Any cover through work and super looked at before you start contracting on your own.
Cover Revisited Once You’re Licensed
Any cover set up on apprentice pay looked at again once you hold your licence.
TPD Definitions Weighed for the Trade
How each TPD definition would view licensed trade work, read through with you.
Nominations Kept Current
Beneficiary nominations looked at again after a change of job, fund or family situation.
Support Through a Claim
A claim lodged with you and followed up while the insurer assesses it.

Cover is easier to choose when it’s explained in plain terms. We start by listening to how your work runs, how you’re paid and what you want your cover to do. Then we talk through each type of cover, answer your questions as they come up and go at a pace that suits you. Our recommendations usually come to you in writing, and every decision along the way is yours to make.
We take on the paperwork alongside you. With your consent, we can request insurance details from any fund that holds cover for you, gather what an application needs and keep in touch with insurers while they assess it. A partner or family member is welcome to join any conversation. If you ever need to claim, we’ll lodge the claim with you, follow it up and keep you updated until the insurer has made its decision.
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 electrical work, your family, work, income, assets and goals. Then we recommend the types and amounts of cover that suit your life.
Working as an electrician can mean heights, energised equipment, apprentice pay steps or contracting on an ABN. Each can affect how an insurer assesses an application and how a policy pays, so your duties, hours and how you’re paid are part of what we look at.
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.
Income protection can pay part of your income after a waiting period if illness or injury stops you working, subject to the policy’s terms. The benefit is usually based on your earnings in the 12 months before the illness or injury, so on apprentice pay the amount insured reflects that stage of your training.
Cover in super usually doesn’t start automatically for a new member under 25, or with a low balance, unless they ask the fund for it, or the fund gives automatic cover for a dangerous job. As your pay steps up each year and again once you’re licensed, a policy can be reviewed against what you now earn, and the insurer decides on any increase. We can look at cover in super and outside it with you.
It depends on the scheme and how the work is set up. Workers compensation comes through a state, territory or Commonwealth scheme, and is generally an employer’s insurance for its employees. Some schemes can treat a contractor as a worker of the business they work for, and whether that applies to you is a question for the scheme or a lawyer.
On an ABN there’s no sick leave to draw on. Personal income protection, if you hold it, can pay part of your income after a waiting period if illness or injury stops you working, whether or not it happened on the job, subject to the policy’s terms. We can look at any cover you have with you before you take on contract work, or soon after.
Some enterprise agreements in the electrical industry include income protection for illness or injury outside work, paid for by the employer through an industry scheme. Whether an agreement includes it, and for whom, depends on its terms, and agreements that include it for other employees usually include apprentices too. It isn’t cover you can join yourself, because it relies on an employer contributing under the agreement.
Injuries at work are separate again, and workers compensation may cover them if you’re eligible. Changing employer, moving to a new agreement or going out on an ABN can change the cover that applies to you, so the agreement and any scheme documents are worth reading. We can map that cover with you alongside your super and any personal cover.
Finishing your apprenticeship is a good time to look at your cover. Your pay usually rises once you’re licensed, and whether a licence allowance counts as income depends on each policy’s definition. Income protection is usually based on your earnings in the 12 months before an illness or injury, so cover set up on apprentice pay may insure less than you now earn.
The work your licence lets you do can also change how your duties are described on an application or recorded by your fund. We can review any cover you hold with you, and the insurer decides on any increase and the terms it offers.
There’s no single figure, because the amount comes from your own situation rather than your trade. A useful starting point is what you owe, such as any home loan, vehicle finance or business debts, and what your loved ones would need for everyday costs and future plans.
From there, any life cover you hold in super or through a policy is counted, so you can see what, if anything, is still needed. The amount is worth looking at again when you get your licence, start contracting or take on a new loan. We can work through each part with you, and the insurer decides on the cover it offers.
The names can sound alike, so it’s worth reading any accident and sickness policy closely: how long it pays, what it covers and how it works out the amount it pays. Business insurance is arranged through a general insurer or a general insurance broker, and questions about that policy go to whoever arranged it.
Personal advice on income protection starts from your duties, hours, income and any cover in super, then compares policies from a wide range of insurers. We can look at your personal cover alongside any business policy you hold, 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. For apprentices and contractors alike, we begin with the electrical work you do, how you’re paid and what you’d like protected.
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. A payslip showing any allowances, your fund statements and any agreement or insurance documents are useful to have on hand, and together we’ll agree on a practical next step.
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