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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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A former Hornbuckle sales director has been hired by SSAS provider Rowanmoor Group.

The DWP is seeking suggestions on how it can stop SSASs being used in pension scams.

The Financial Ombudsman Service has ruled in favour of a client who complained over advice to transfer the value of his protected rights into a new Sipp.

Advisers have been warned they face an extra FSCS levy next year as a result of rapidly growing claims related to Sipps.

An adviser is set to be banned and fined over 'unsuitable' advice related to switching pension funds via Sipps into unregulated investments.

In the six months after the launch of the new State Pension in April more than 1.5 million personal State Pension forecasts were issued, says the Department for Work and Pensions.

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