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Success Stories - Pensions
This is a bit of a light topic where the idea is to highlight what successes you had with your pension pots. Example - I contributed X and accumulated Y by Z year. Total appreciation was 'x' percent. Just trying to learn the following that could inspire a range of people - those with no pension, those who started late etc.…
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Pensions Planning: The NUMBER
The NUMBER is how much income you need to "live comfortably" So What's your number? Very important for pensions planning, to know what you are aiming for. My Number? (for a couple) I calculated: £22,000 based on Food £5,000 Car/transport £5,000 Bills/Utilities £4,500 Holidays/Leisure £4,500 Clothing/Cash/Xmas/Other £2,000…
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Acronyms etc..
Hello to all. As a fairly new forum user I would appreciate someone posting a key to the acronyms and arcane terms used when discussing pension issues. Thank you in advance.
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Pensions, Annuities & Retirement Planning Sticky
Welcome to the new Pensions, Annuities and Retirement Planning sticky! 👋 📖 Here are some Forum threads you may find useful (if there are any you think have been missed, please do let us know): * Can I cash in my pension? * Early-retirement wannabe * It's time to start digging up those Squirrelled Nuts!!!! 📝 And here's some…
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Basic SIPP starter advice
Hi All, I was wondering if I could get some basic advice on a SIPP please, as i'm getting totally confused with what I am reading and want to make sure i'm not missing something obvious before I open one. I'm also confused about the pension follow through. Firstly, my main reason for opening one is a mixture of tax relief…
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New Capita-run Civil Service Pension Scheme - problems (what a surprise!)
So, Capita have taken over the admin for the CSPS and their new website and members portal went live this week. I have just registered on the new portal and am not in the least bit surprised to find that the information available on the new portal is very scant and incorrect in terms of my length of service. With…
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Trying to transfer my pension but Royal London being awkward
Hi all i have a pension with Royal London that has a GAR but it is way below 30k its not even 5k I am in the process of transferring it to PensionBee because i want to be able to access it easier and now i have received an email from PensionBee saying that Royal London are saying i need to get advice from a financial…
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UFPLS regular automatic monthly payment possible?
Triggered by a recent Diane Sullivan video - warning that some providers aren’t flexible with UFPLS and often FAD is simpler as its a more embedded setup in slow moving pension providers. I don’t know that I’m needing to take a monthly withdrawal but I’d like the flexibility to choose. But trying to understand how the…
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The Ten Year Plan... How does this compare to others?
I think I have a plan and wanted to test it against the great minds on here, if you don't mind. We are due to re-mortgage in Nov 2026. Borrowing will be £240k, I'm hoping our new deal will allow us to repay £1500/month for the next ten years. Currently at 40% LTV. Also for the next ten years I'm also going to put…
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Bold leap into retirement
Morning all, I hope you have managed to find some time for yourself in what can be a busy period. We have enjoyed spending time with family over the last 3 days, it’s a quiet one today, then off to visit more family tomorrow. I’m not planning anything wild for NYE, but have been really starting to think about what I want…
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Early Retirement Refused
I’m 55 and I have a deferred DB pension with Diageo, I started in 1999 and left in 2001. I had transferred in my previous DB pension from IMI who I worked for from1988 to 1999. I recently asked for a benefit statement and they mistakenly thought I had asked for early retirement (no plans to retire until aged 60). They sent…
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Am I missing any tricks in my retirement plan
Hi All, I plan to retire this Sept aged 62.5. I believe I have a robust plan but do not want to miss anything simple that adds value to retirement income. I currently have a DB of £16,400 that is in payment with the usual RPI/CPI built in and my DC is currently at £370k and I have another 6 months of payment of £3550 to go…
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Government control of pension pots
Lots of headlines today (and paywalled stories) about the government 'grabbing control of our pension schemes' If true how will these powers affect the average person in a company DC scheme, will it affect existing contributions or just future ones? Are we exempt from any powers if we've opted in to something other than…
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WillisTowerWatson slow admin
After some advice here please. Our employer pension scheme is held with WillisTowerWatson, and my understanding is it is just a holding company, not a pension provider? (terminology may be way off) Ive heard several stories of ex-employees who've retired, and its taken them 6 or more months to access their pension after…
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True Potential redress offer
My wife and I moved our pensions to True Potential back in 2021, upon the (verbal only) advice of our IFA at the time. After a couple of years, I realised that this was a mistake and eventually moved everything over to a DIY platform and happily manage this all myself now. I didn't complain at the time, just wanted to move…
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Annual Pension Statement
I am retired and resident in Spain. For 7 years my tax advisor has requested the annual statement from the DWP for my pension. I have, so far, NEVER received such a letter and have been able to provide a summary of the payments into my bank. This year, however, the personal statment is not being accepted and I am being…
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Teachers Pension Scheme and CPI increase
Hi, My wife will be taking her pension this Friday (10th April) which is obviously after the 6th April when the 3.8% rise applies. I understand that any rises when the pension is in payment will have their first increase apportioned. As her pension was NOT in payment on 6th April 2026, and I assume she was still a deferred…
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Taxed on my already taxed savings
Middle manager, putting an extra £50 per week on top of my pension for the last 3 years, taken from whatever wages I had left after Tax and NI. So long story short, loose my job due to ill health, reach 55 years of age (I'm now 58 tomorrow) and decide to take my pension lump sum to take family on holiday to the states.…
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Capita Data Breach/Barings
I’ve just had an email from (Removed by Forum Team), Head of Data Breach at Barings Law advising that he is moving to Abbleys Solicitors and taking the Capital Data Breach case with him. Has anyone else received this? Wondering what the implications of this are? Thanks
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Aegon takeover
For info https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/standard-life-strikes-2bn-deal-072550360.html
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42 Year olds diary for last min retirement planning and debt free living
I guess you get to a point in your life where you wonder what will my retirement actually be like? I am at that stage now…. This is going to be a long post!!! My plan for this diary is to update it weekly with what I have done, and keep a running total of side hustle earnings (i want to keep under the 1k limit) and the…
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Maximising BR headroom while you can, vs mortality risk pre-75.
playing with optimisation strategies at the moment. Planning to retire at 58. If things go well, we should hopefully have some excess we can use to gift to kids while we’re still here and while they’re not too old. Some can be likely left to inheritance but with pensions going into the estate we want to avoid any massive…
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slow pension admin
hi all can anyone help im 57 and have a db pension with avc's i signed all the paper work off end of jan to start claiming my private pension for start of the new tax year i dont have a passport so i had to send a copy of my driving licence and 2 bill inc bank statement the id is now still the hold up ive been on the phone…
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LGPS & State Pension Age
I and 43m and joined LGPS in 2017 on the CARE scheme - which I understand is tied to the State Pension Age. For me, this is currently aged 68. (with the increase from 67→68 scheduled for sometime 2044-46) The current implementation of the SPA rise to 67 got me thinking about the risks around this for planning for…
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