Tax Credits to Universal Credit - moving excess savings to a pension fund?

NedS

Spoonie_Turtle said:

peteuk said:

Others would question the morality of expecting UC to live off whilst pumping £10K into a pension.  The government dont want you to work out the future, they want the here and now. 

What matters is what the law says, not the morality of it.  (And the government seems quite happy to let people put aside money for the future, with the legislation they've written, as the more people have for retirement, the less help they'll need/be entitled to after pension age.)

Indeed, more than happy, it's actually a listed DWP priority:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions/about

• increase saving for, and security in, later life