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Steve Webb; IHT and other pension tax changes – 10.30 today.
Click here to join the coffee morning today (9th) at 10.30 am We brought the Pension PlayPen session forward by half an hour last week to allow some people to hear McGrath and Keating on the run on/wind up debate … Continue reading
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Steve Webb provides a blueprint to avoid a “budget omnishambles”
Steve Webb has simplified the potential impact on pensions of a November 26th budget. If you want to read the document , it’s here and you can download it Webb refers in the paper to the 2021 budget when he … Continue reading
Sir Steve Webb; IHT Changes & Pensions – a discussion.
We brought the Pension PlayPen session forward by half an hour to allow some people to hear McGrath and Keating on the run on/wind up debate for occupational DB pension plans. Immediately after our pension was LCP’s session on … Continue reading
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Faced with financial uncertainty of the end of life? Steve Webb at his best
Steve Webb asks for feedback. I would ask anyone who is facing a long term future being looked after privately or knows someone facing this prospect to listen to this three minute video. Steve is taking seriously the financial consequences … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, Lifetime mortgage, Nursing fees, Pensions, Steve Webb
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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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Tagged annuity, pension freedom, Ros Altmann, Sir Steve Webb, Steve Webb
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Does HMRC care about DC savers who want their money due them?
More than half a million people have now been forced to reclaim tax they never owed after dipping into their pensions, with former pensions minister Steve Webb saying the system is “designed for the convenience of the tax office, not … Continue reading
Playing the second half of the pension game with “defaults”
“Making sure more employers and savers have the option of an innovative CDC pension scheme is an important part of making that happen.” It would be easy for an enthusiast like Henry Tapper to argue for a CDC future , … Continue reading
Welcome Scotland – goodbye Culloden
Those familiar with these things will recognise my Partick correspondent talking to the Pensions Minister. He’s chuffed as he should be – few people achieved what he has done for the PPF. I have been thinking of the exercise of … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Retirement, Steve Webb
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PPF – 20 years old – memories of a child and teenage pension!
As part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, our colleagues have been sharing some of their memories from their time at the PPF. We’d love to hear your stories, memories and pictures too! Tag us and use the hashtag #PPF20 pic.twitter.com/TJyCl7eHmz … Continue reading
Competition will not drive good funded pensions; that’s over.
Waking up to a new pensions world I am sorry to read arguments on social media and in Pension Age lamenting the loss of the competition we have today. The mess of GPPs, single employer DC schemes and the majority … Continue reading
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Tagged David Brooks, Pensions, Steve Webb
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