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  • Tilley: Rebooting the FOS makes sense

    I’ve written before about the lack of coherence in the UK’s pension complaints landscape and it remains a source of real frustration for those of us working in the sector.

  • Lisa Webster: Pension age uncertainty lingers on

    We’ve known for many years that normal minimum pension age, NMPA it's known, is going up.

  • Tilley: Are we asking too much of pension savers?

    Working in UK pensions, I’ve always accepted that the system evolves. Fiscal pressures change, demographics shift, and governments recalibrate policy objectives. But even allowing for that, the pace and volume of legislative change in the pensions space over the last few years feels unprecedented, and in my view increasingly problematic.

  • Lisa Webster: Beware IHT and pensions double taxation

    One of the most disliked aspects of bringing pensions into the estate for inheritance tax (IHT) purposes from 6 April 2027 is the double taxation that will occur when the member dies on or after their 75th birthday.

  • Lisa Webster: Should tax-free cash always be taken?

    Since the Lifetime Allowance was abolished and replaced with the Lump Sum Allowance (LSA) and lump sum and death benefit allowance (LSDBA), we have seen an increase in SIPP members who want to take drawdown only – foregoing the right to take the associated pension commencement lump sum (PCLS).

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The number of teachers opting out of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme has climbed 14% to 13,112 during the past 12 months, data collected by the Department for Education has revealed.

Average transfer times for DC pensions fell by 14.2 in the 18 months to the end of June 2024, according to new figures published by fintech Origo.

The High Court has approved a plan to return money and customer assets to clients of failed Newcastle-based wealth manager WealthTek which has a SIPP arm.

An industry-wide awareness week on pensions dashboards will return in September and will feature a range of online events designed to encourage knowledge sharing, insight, and best practice as companies prepare for the dashboards connections starting in eight months.

Pension schemes are in favour of the Labour government introducing tax incentives to increase pension investment in UK growth, according to a new survey.

An extra 1.2m people are facing a worse retirement lifestyle than in 2023, according to the annual retirement report from Scottish Widows.

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