Balancing flexibility with personal responsibility

As a single LGBTI person, the additional flexibility in your lifestyle also comes with a greater degree of personal financial responsibility and the need to rely upon yourself.

• Single people are keenly aware of the risk of becoming sick or even disabled.
• Being single and self-reliant means you generally have to save more in your emergency savings fund, be careful with your long term health and have a higher amount of disability insurance in case you get sick or injured and can't work temporarily or lose your ability to earn your income longterm.
• For many single LGBTI Australians, there’s often no financial backup and usually diminished family support; so staying healthy and independent, and able to continue to earn your income is something you cannot afford to lose.

Being single can bring a level of freedom that needs a greater level of protection.

Why single people need specialist financial advice

• As a community that still has more single people than coupled, we are more vulnerable to the financial risks that losing our ability to earn our income brings.
• For many people in the LGBTI community who are single, unmarried or unpartnered, longer-term financial stability and security can be a source of anxiety.

If you’re single and LGBTI, it's time to learn more about your options today and then take action to protect what you cannot afford to lose - your ability to continue to earn your income.

Other considerations:

• Are you Single in Business? You probably have additional business risks to manage. Let us help you with that.
• Are you planning IVF or surrogacy? You probably have some longer-term planning ahead. Let us help you protect that too.