CASH WINDFALL

AUSSIES are pocketing millions of dollars they previously may not have realised they’re entitled to after being prompted by a bank’s handy new tool.

In almost every developed economy across the globe, 10 to 30 per cent of government benefits and rebates go unclaimed each year.

That’s one of the reasons Commonwealth Bank developed the “Benefits Finder” within its app, which it launched in 2019, with a big spike in recent usage.

Customers have commenced more than 1.5 million claims, up from more than 1 million in February this year.