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Lifetime ISA parliamentary consultation: have your say!
eskbanker
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The Treasury select committee have commissioned a review "asking for evidence on whether the Lifetime Individual Savings Account (LISA) is still an appropriate financial product nine years after it was created", including a range of questions seen regularly on threads on here, so those with views on the subject are invited to participate in the public consultation process (by 4 February):
Is the Lifetime ISA fit for purpose in 2025? Committee calls for evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
Call for Evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
Apologies if this is old news but I don't recall seeing any mention of it on here since the publication of the above pages on the 7th....
- Is the Lifetime ISA fit for purpose in its current design, including as a combined product for house purchase and pension saving?
- How well do consumers transition between using the Lifetime ISA as a product for house purchase, to then a product for pension saving?
- Given its policy purposes, is the Lifetime ISA value for money for the Government?
- Is the Lifetime ISA a suitable pension savings product?
- Should the Lifetime ISA be abolished?
- Should the Lifetime ISA be reformed to remove the withdrawal penalty?
- Should the Lifetime ISA be restricted to those with no access to a workplace pension?
- Should the Lifetime ISA house price cap be raised in line with inflation, or removed?
- Should the annual Lifetime ISA limit be raised from £4,000?
- Should the Lifetime ISA be reformed in any other way?
Call for Evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
Apologies if this is old news but I don't recall seeing any mention of it on here since the publication of the above pages on the 7th....
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Thanks for sharing, will have a look in the week.
Some sort of reform is definitely overdue, of course whether what eventually happens will end up being an improvement is anyone's guess.0 -
Thanks for highlighting this - I've submitted my comments1
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