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Is it too late to start a pension?
Hello. Both self employed and have arrived rather late in the day to finally being in a financial position to save etc as previously any money was put back into moving forward in life to get to a position of owning our property etc. So we are now wondering if it is too late to look at a private pension! No pension at all…
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Trading fees on ETF trades HL SIPP
Hi. I've asked HL but they are taking forever to get back to me. Does anyone know if you pay trading fees when automatically buying ETFs from company contributions in the HL SIPP? You don't on OEICs. Many thanks.
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Pension Advice Quote
I have an old workplace DB pension that has a transfer value of 120,000, two years ago it was 143,000. If I take the pension I will get around 6k per year but I would rather transfer it into another pension pot I have to give it a couple of years to grow. I spoke with a pension advisor who said it would cost around £5k for…
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Transferring pensions into NHS pension
Hi. I started work in an NHS job 8 months ago and joined the pension scheme. I currently have a contract that will take me to two years’ employment and this may be extended beyond that. I have two DB LGPS pensions which will pay out just under £7k per year at 60. I also have two cash balance pensions from previous…
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A few Pension queries please …
Hi New to this forum but hoping you can help with some queries regards me taking early retirement…. 1) Does it matter what tax year i take my pension lump sum seeing as it is tax free (25% up to cap) 2) Can I take my 25% in separate chunks or does input have to be the full lump sum in one go? I.e if say my 25% was £100k….…
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Transfer out from Aegon Retirement Choices to II
I want to transfer my pension from ARC to II. I already did a partial transfer about a year ago, and at that time ARC was available as an specific option on the II selection screens. However that option has disappeared and now the options are: Aegon Investment Solutions Ltd Aegon cofunds Aegon Aegon Scottish Equitable…
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Aviva workplace pension funds
I have 2 workplace pension funds that were acquired by Aviva years ago (one starting with F and another with TK). Both were managed online and I took out 25% tax-free money from both. At some point Aviva informed me that "as I am approaching the retirement age" they were moving my investments into the different funds.…
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Frozen tax thresholds – should I over-withdraw from my pension at 40% now to fill our ISAs?
With the freezing of tax thresholds and potential that
this will continue beyond 2028 I expect that at some point in the future that in order to meet my target
income in retirement I will need to withdraw from my pension at a level that
will incur the higher rate of tax at 40%. Previously I had always assumed I would be…
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SIPP, Sal Sac and AI confusion
This post may be a bit long, but I hope it is interesting. I am trying to work out how much I can add to my SIPP this
tax year. My situation is a little
messy, but I thought I understood the rules. Partly to check and partly as an experiment, I asked ChaptGPT for its
views. I then put the same data into
Co-Pilot. These two…
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Drawdown period calculations
How do you work out how long your pot will last for? The Which calculator sounds very optimistic to me - e.g. a million would last for 23 years if you take out £62k the first year and increase it by 2% a year with a moderate portfolio and middling growth.…
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Can I take another lump sum from my pension?
Last year I took a tax free lump sum from my pension of £35k, it's a flexible drawdown pension with around £380k current value, as I understand it I won't pay any tax on the lump sum taken last year going forward and will only pay tax on any future withdrawals from that crystallised pension. My question is can I take…
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Should Student Take Refund of Under 2 Years Pension Contributions or set up SIPP?
Son is 24 and currently a student again after approx 2 years in the workplace following graduation. It is a one year masters after which he would hope to be employed in a role with a civil service pension. He has two periods of employment and two small pension pots. The first is about 18 months, the second 6 months or so.…
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Additional contributions to SIPP check.
Hi all. I am just looking for clarification of my plan to make sure I don't contribute too much to my SIPP. My YTD earnings are as below. Year to date. Total gross pay £18154.51 Gross for tax £18154.51 Tax paid £2065.80 Earnings for NI £18154.51 National insurance £813.44 Pension (Inc ADV) £0.00 Employer NI £2248.01…
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Potentially moving from LGPS to CS pension - need some advice, please.
I'm currently in a job in HE, on £44,000 pa with an LGPS pension - with a 60 mile round commute. This is linked to 10 years of final salary LGPS pension from a previous public sector role, so with the current annual spine increments and negotiated cost of living awards, that benefits my old final salary pot. I've been…
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Pension or no pension!?
Good evening, I was reading through the MSE site regarding pensions and I'm now somewhat confused. I came across a FAQ saying "If you’re over 55 and have taken income from your pension, you can only contribute up to a maximum of £10,000 a year, or 100% of what you earn, whichever is lower. This is to stop you taking large…
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Drawdown - finer points.
Morning All I have SIPPs in both HL and Bell and in the near future I am contemplating drawdown. Initially this will be with a view to take the lump sum only, but will morph into drawing an income from the crystallized portion. A couple of Qs if I may Is this fairly simple to set up and manage the drawdown aspect of a SIPP…
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Aviva 98 Series Personal and Group Personal Pension
Hi everyone, I’m trying to help a close friend understand his options when it comes to drawing some tax free cash from his existing 98 Series PP. I’m not giving advice - just attempting to wade through the plethora of info which Aviva have sent him following a recent phone call. He’s invested in about 6 funds (I think…
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Is my pension in drawdown?
Looking for some advice please, in process of pension transfer from SL to ii. I have been told there will be delays because my ceding pension is in drawdown. I was not aware of this, but suspect I may have been ignorant on the subject. I have taken a lump sum, only a part of my 25% tax free allowance, about 5 years ago. Is…
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Claiming a deferred state pension - 7 months on from initial claim
Evening, My father deferred his state pension (pre 2016 rules) but decided to claim the deferred amount this year. He started the process in April but has had little success. He's been on hold at different points for hours with promises of call backs, action etc but here we are in November and he's still waiting. Obviously…
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Do I need to declare and overall money review
So I am currently in a position where I am/was around £5,000+ in credit card debt, with a £10,000+ loan for a car and have been offered to have the years worth of pension contributions paid back to me after I left. My main goal is to reduce the amount of debt I have in total, to reduce/remove the amount of interest I am…
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