Program · Outcome 2: Protect and advance Australia’s strategic interests through the provision of strategic policy, the development, delivery and sustainment of military, intelligence and enabling capabilities, and the promotion of regional and global security and stability as directed by Government.
Program 2.20 Defence Force Superannuation Benefits Program and Program 2.21 Defence Force Superannuation Nominal Interest
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$9.8bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$432m (+4.6%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expenses not requiring appropriation | administered | $5.5bn | $5.5bn | −$37m −0.7% | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 336 |
| Military Superannuation and Benefits Act, 1991 Part V, s.17 | administered | $2.8bn | $3.1bn | +$275m +9.7% | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 334 |
| Defence Force Retirements and Death Benefits Act, 1973 Part XII, s.125 (3) | administered | $1.9bn | $1.9bn | +$43m +2.3% | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 333 |
| Australian Defence Force Cover Act 2015 | administered | $220m | $328m | +$108m +49.3% | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 335 |
| Defence Force Retirement Benefits Act, 1948 Part 1, s.15D and VIC, s.82ZJ (1) | administered | $31m | $32m | +$1.1m +3.4% | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 332 |
| Administered revenues from other sources | administered | −$1.1bn | −$1.0bn | +$43m – | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 337 |