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Taking an AVC (LGPS pension)

doingitanyway
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I posted re the above but I have the answer now.

If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Solicitor/survey savings 300/1700
Emergency fund 0/1000
Buffer fund 0/200

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  • hyubh
    hyubh Posts: 3,660 Forumite
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    I posted re the above but I have the answer now.

    Presumably that was something along the lines of, 'your question is based on slightly faulty assumptions, since the mechanism to take the whole AVC as cash is to put it with your main LGPS pension and take up to 25% the total capital value as your PCLS'...? 
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