Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has reaffirmed the Government’s plans to give people one ‘pension pot for life’, moveable from job to job, despite concerns shared by the financial advice industry.

The Spring Budget 2024 will take place on 6 March, the Treasury confirmed today.

John Moret is one of the UK's leading SIPP experts and commentators. As he enters his 75th year, still working part-time, he begins a series of articles looking back at his long career and key topics which have steered the pensions sector. He starts with a timely look at the Chancellor's pension bombshell Budget delivered only yesterday. 

The Chancellor could introduce a limit to the tax-free lump sums taken from pensions, cut the pension annual allowance, and tax pensions when left to descendants to raise cash in the Autumn Budget.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme received 4,100 extra SIPP and pensions claims 2019/20 than it expected, resulting in increased cost of £3.9m.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has scrapped a planned and long-awaited 2% cut in Corporation Tax to 17%.

Chancellor Sajid Javid has quit just four weeks before he was due to deliver the first post-Election Budget on 11 March.

Chancellor Sajid Javid is likely to tackle some thorny pensions problems in his first post-election Budget which will take place on Wednesday 11 March.

Recent developments in the Brexit saga and an inevitable snap general election led the Government to put the Sajid Javid’s Autumn Budget on hold last week to focus on getting Brexit done.