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Another drawdown question
A specific request and getting my ducks in a row. I'm not looking for other options (I know how threads meander!) and have a clear pathway to meet my overall needs/desires. £140k pot, taking £35k TFLS. A desire to take the remaining £105k as efficiently as possible, whilst remaining under the 40% band. This will be c£20k…
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Tracking workplace pension
How can I find a workplace pension that I had with a company I worked for.i have tried pension tracker and I'm not getting anywhere
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Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP) payment - How Long for Update?
Hi All I wanted to ask what peoples experience has been with claiming HRP? My mother ( who is 75) received her letter from HMRC within 3 weeks to say she was owed HRP on her NI Record. This was back at the beginning of March and has since heard nothing else about what she is owed or if her pension is going up. Should we…
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Pension pot and annuities
Hello everyone My Husband has just resigned from his job, he is 64 and half. He had worked for the same company for the last 30 years and contributed to the workplace pension. He now wants to retire and get his workplace pension. Originally it was Scottish widows, but company decided to change to Scottish Equitable,…
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early retirement reduction factors CS pension scheme - different for active/deferred members?
I have a mix of Alpha and Nuvos pension - thinking of leaving the CS next year after 17 years. Checking my account and MyCSP doesn't have the retirement modeller on it any more? From memory it would be more advantageous for me to take Nuvos/Option A but I am still working things through. Are there any differences in the…
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AJ Bell pension
Anyone here already taking payments from an AJ Bell pension, I’m due my first regular payment from this month (was expecting it today) but have just noticed it’s paid by BACS today and expected to hit my account in next few days. just wondered if anyone has experience of this, what date does the money usually hit your…
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Grandparents specified tax credits
HiIf a grandparent claims Specified Adult Childcare credits,say for looking after their daughters son who is 7 . Daughter work's full time and claims child benefit.Dose the daughter loose out on her pension National insurance credit that goes towards her pension?Hope this makes sense.Thanks in advance.
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Paying extra into my pension to save tax?
Hello, At the end of September, I’ll be getting a payrise. My pay will be increased from under 50k to above 50k. The payrise is lovely, but it’s not something that I will actually need right now. I stumbled across something that made me think about putting extra money into my workplace pension, would save me in the long…
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Annual Allowance Previous Years Question
I was wondering if someone could help me out with working out if I have any annual allowance leeway for the current 25/26 tax year. In 24/25 I was 5700 over the AA threshold However in 23/24 I was 13400 under it. In 22/23 I was 8000 over it In years prior to this I was significantly under it as I wasn't paying into a…
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Filling in State Pension Voluntary Contributions Form IPC117.
Hi everyone, My wife has finally received her e-mail from the DWP about how to pay voluntary NI contributions to top up her state pension, which includes the IPC117 form which needs to completed and sent to HMRC. It looks mostly straightforward apart from one bullet point where it states you can ask for help and get…
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Help with picking an annuity
I want to buy an annuity. My main question is, where is the best place to go to compare annuity rates. I have £80K in a pension pot and I have an additional £100K so I want to find the best annuity for me. Initially I am going to ask my pension pot provider for their products ( Standard Life) but I need to compare with…
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TPS member wants to increase pension contributions
I have a relative who is a teacher (c 30 years old) and a member of the TPS. She does a lot of extra tutoring and exam marking and expects that for this tax year she will, for the first time, be a higher rate tax payer. She wants to put the excess income over the basic rate threshold into her pension and has asked me the…
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Advice to a 20 year old re pension or LISA
Hello everyone :) How would you advise a 20 year old who has a zero hours contract (which is likely to change), with regards to putting £4k per year away. A typical 20 year old with no immediate plans for home buying. Would you go LISA or pension route?
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Understand a CS ABS
So, I am in the hideous position of having to rethink everything because of the law change in 2028. OH and I are both CS, he is 5 years older than me and we planned to retire at the same time - him at 60 me at 55. The law changes 6 months before I turn 55 so I'm not able to get my pension for another 2 years.. Both of us…
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Pension Triple Lock
Can someone who understands these things quickly clarify something for me?Last year the state pension went up by 4.1%, which supposedly reflected the increase in wages from May to July 2024, announced in September. That all seems perfectly straightforward. But the ONS…
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Most effective method to withdraw...
Hello all, I'm looking for a sanity check on the most effective way to withdraw £10K net from a number of funds and accounts I have. The backdrop being, home owner with zero mortgage, grown up children now fled the nest, better half has a terminal condition and we manage on PiP, Carers Allowance and rental income which…
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Target for Average Pension Pot growth
Is there a standard target for the growth of a pension pot. Obviously to beat inflation i guess. But if one consistently gets 2% rise every year, is this enough? Would there be a time to consider switching what funds are being invested in? Just wondered, as I review my pension portfolio, what is a satisfactory growth rate,…
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Opening a pension and then transferring immediately
I can get a cashback bonus if I transfer a pension. Is there a pension provider I could put £100 in and then immediately transfer? There'd have to be no exit fees. I already have accounts with PensionBee and Penfold but don't want to transfer those.
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Hoping to be able to retire at fifty-five. Am I doing this right?
Recently a good friend of mine retired in her mid-fifties, inspiring me to think about how I could achieve this for myself. Having not paid a huge amount of interest in the are up until recently I wanted to check if I'm being realistic or if there's a better approach. Age: 44 Current Salary: £84 k base Current Group…
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Number crunching query
Number crunching has never been my strong point and I am seeking the wisdom of the forum. My partner recently got a lump sum and is looking to drip feed it into her SIPP but we are unsure of the maximum she can put in. She has plenty of carry forward allowance so that isn’t an issue but I am unsure of how much she can put…
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