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Tag Archives: Stephen Timms
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
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
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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Tagged Dashboard, MAPS, Pension Wise, Stephen Timms, Work and Pensions Committee
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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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Tagged NEST, nest pensions, pension, Retirement, retirement hub, Stephen Timms, WSPC
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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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Tagged Gareth Morgan, Pension Credits, Pension Freedoms, Stephen Timms, WPSC
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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
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
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
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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Tagged consolidation, Pensions, small pots, Stephen Timms
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Snowden’s proposal for an amnesty for the pension liberated.
I was pleased to read Margaret Snowden’s measured call for an amnesty for those scammed through pension liberation schemes , commonly sold in the early years of this century. The evidence appears as part of the inquiry into pension scams … Continue reading