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business reporter Nassim Khadem

Deliberately not paying superannuation is 'wage theft' and the government is cracking down on it

Clare Elliott learned the importance of tracking her superannuation the hard way.

She was just 16 years old when she started working in retail and, now, a decade later, she believes her former employer was not paying her enough nor making the required compulsory super payments to her fund.

At the time, she says, she was earning $16 dollars an hour, which "seemed like a lot of money", so she accepted being paid cash without pay slips.

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