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Pension freedoms don’t work for the dead, pensions are for the living!
I come at the issue rather differently than Ros who is keen on protecting retirement wealth as a haven for those with inheritance tax problems. Well I don’t think this is top of the list of Government priorities despite there … Continue reading
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Steve Webb’s Ludgate Lecture on the state pension.
In this lecture, Steve Webb gives us what he calls a two course meal The first course looks at how it is that Government is getting its administation so wrong on the payment of the State Pension Steve’s charitable answer … Continue reading
Steve Webb on how AI will improve Government decision making
Beyond Curious with LCP · S1 Ep. 7 AI in government, politics and regulation “Government is “teeming” with data and harnessing the power of AI to analyse that data should be a no-brainer”. That’s the view of Steve Webb- and … Continue reading
Financial education? It needs more conviction than most of us can muster!
People in the pensions industry are fond of using the phrase “financial education” as if they know the answer and those who aren’t doing what they want to do are financially illiterate. This is hugely arrogant and largely wrong. People … Continue reading
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‘Normal service will be resumed by the end of October 2021″ -DWP
I hope Guy Opperman’s promise that those due their state pension , some for 6 months or more, will get their payments with more than an apology. The short term blip in service is being blamed by the Minister on … Continue reading
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Tagged DWP, Pension Credit, Pensions, Ros Altmann, Sir Steve Webb, state pension, Steve Groves, Universal Credit
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Webb and Snowden on the state pension and scamming
We are hosting our first “Event” on Tues 3 August. You are invited to join our “All Stars” pension experts Steve Webb and Margaret Snowdon, for a coffee morning discussing state pensions and pension scams. Sign up to for free … Continue reading
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Underpayments of the State Pension estimated at £2.7bn.
In May last year, former Minister Steve Webb, now a partner with actuarial practice, Lane Clark and Peacock, launched a calculator to help the nation’s Grannies work out if they were entitled to more state pension than they had received.. … Continue reading
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