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  • annie_tanks
    annie_tanks Posts: 61 Forumite
    6.5% is a very generous rate..my trustees offer a rate based on the CPI of currently 3.6%..even with this much lower rate would it still be worth keeping the fund where it is rather than transfer it out..say to an enhanced annuity..
  • RichandJ
    RichandJ Posts: 1,087 Forumite
    edited 7 March 2012 at 6:13PM
    <Pedant mode on

    It's actually 6.25% not 6.5% and that's only on the GMP of a hundred quid odd. Not to be sneezed at but not on the whole deferred pension. This is a legal requirement for Fixed rate GMPS, the %age depends on when you left.

    The remainder will be increased by RPI or possibly CPI after 2010 capped at 5% pa.

    Pedant mode off>

    ETA: I wouldn't touch that transfer value with a barge pole. Ludicrously low.
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