Tag Archives: Stephen Timms

Police should fight online financial crime, not “bad jokes on twitter!”

The new PM had blasted police forces for “policing bad jokes on Twitter” instead of “fighting actual crime” during his summer leadership bid. Now he’s pointing to the example set by Greater Manchester’s Police whose head, Steven Watson has taken his force … Continue reading

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Can Stephen Timms cut the Gordian Knot and unbind FAS pensions?

Stephen Timms , chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, has written to pensions minister Guy Opperman asking for clarity over the compensation cap placed on the Financial Assistance Scheme. Last year the Court of Appeal ruled that the cap … Continue reading

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WPSC concludes we have no framework to assess how we’re turning pots to pensions.

The Work and Pension Select Committee has published its report into how we are accessing our pension savings. It is full of good things and is a major contribution to thinking in this area pulling together the views of those … Continue reading

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The Money and Pensions Service is in a mess – and it needs to be told so.

This session of the Work and Pension Committee’s taking of oral evidence was a game of two halves. In the first half, David Fairs and Sarah Pritchard had a reasoned debate with selected MPs on how people could expect to … Continue reading

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When is Nest going to become a pension scheme?

Michael Clark, as usual is on the money Nest sees CDC-style offering as ‘potential option’ for retirees https://t.co/6dMlEDDrwV Well it’s a start. CDC is a very real option and should be seen as such by other DC schemes/master trusts — … Continue reading

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Have pension freedoms “benefited” the poor?

Gareth Morgan has written to us via linked in to remind us his submission to the Work and Pensions Select Committee is now public . You can read it in full here   bit.ly/3d9PpyW There were 54 written submissions but only … Continue reading

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Can you make an informed choice on how to draw your pension?

I’m returning to the questions put to us by the Work and Pensions Select Committee. The call for evidence has closed but the questions remain just as relevant. One question , chair Stephen Timms is putting to us is Including … Continue reading

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What’s missing from our pension choices at retirement?

  The Work and Pensions Select Committee have asked ten big questions about how the pension freedoms are working. If the collective answer is that the pension freedoms are working badly, then there are further questions to be asked like … Continue reading

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The ten big pension questions

  These are  ten big questions facing pension professionals and its public today. They are the questions in the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s inquiry into the Pension Freedoms and they are worth your consideration. They concern the decisions we … Continue reading

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Dashboards aren’t the “small-pot fix” some claim

  The ABI want us to consider pension dashboards as a means to consolidate small pots Imperative for any solution … is for government to prioritise delivery of commercial and non-commercial pensions dashboards to spur pension scheme members to consolidate … Continue reading

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