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Pensions Planning: The NUMBER
The NUMBER is how much income you need to "live comfortably" So What's your number? Very important for pensions planning, to know what you are aiming for. My Number? (for a couple) I calculated: £22,000 based on Food £5,000 Car/transport £5,000 Bills/Utilities £4,500 Holidays/Leisure £4,500 Clothing/Cash/Xmas/Other £2,000…
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Success Stories - Pensions
This is a bit of a light topic where the idea is to highlight what successes you had with your pension pots. Example - I contributed X and accumulated Y by Z year. Total appreciation was 'x' percent. Just trying to learn the following that could inspire a range of people - those with no pension, those who started late etc.…
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Acronyms etc..
Hello to all. As a fairly new forum user I would appreciate someone posting a key to the acronyms and arcane terms used when discussing pension issues. Thank you in advance.
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Pensions, Annuities & Retirement Planning Sticky
Welcome to the new Pensions, Annuities and Retirement Planning sticky! 👋 📖 Here are some Forum threads you may find useful (if there are any you think have been missed, please do let us know): * Can I cash in my pension? * Early-retirement wannabe * It's time to start digging up those Squirrelled Nuts!!!! 📝 And here's some…
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Bold leap into retirement
Morning all, I hope you have managed to find some time for yourself in what can be a busy period. We have enjoyed spending time with family over the last 3 days, it’s a quiet one today, then off to visit more family tomorrow. I’m not planning anything wild for NYE, but have been really starting to think about what I want…
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ROYAL MAIL PENSION QUOTE AT 55 DONT UNDERSTAND
Hi i had my pension quote from royal mail im in section C - my understanding is that theses are the figures if i decide to take my pension at 55 My RMPP pension shows the following Option 1 regular income £1503 pa tax free cash none tax free cash from cash balance none leftover benefits from cash balance none Option 1A…
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Pension Planning Guidance
Good evening all, Myself and my GF have just had a baby and at 36 I have decided to finally start looking at pensions. Just looking for some guidance on if what I am doing is correct. I have 6 pension pots with roughly a combined value of £25k. They have no special benefits so I opened up a Vanguard SIPP and transferred…
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Missing NHS pension.from the year 2000.
I was a nurse at a london hospital. I worked there for two years and I joined the NHS superannuation scheme in 1999 ish. Fast forward to today and I am trying to locate my NHS pension. I contacted the NHS pension tracking system in Newcastle and they said, they have NO RECORD of me being in the scheme, even though I showed…
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Immediate Needs Annuity
It looks like someone I have LPAs for is going to need a lot more personal care soon. Two quick questions. They have a Prudential Bond, could this be used towards an Immediate Needs Annuity? Can the payee of an immediate needs annuity be changed, so if we get one for homecare and they have to go into a home could it be…
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Interesting week for pension fund value
Seemed like a strange week this week - US markets keep going down every day, but my global tracker funds keep going up! Must be FX I guess.
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Who to take lump sum when still working
Hubby is still working and earns approx £31750 this year. He wants to take out all of a small private pension that probably totals £12k 25% of this will be tax fee the rest he will be taxed on when is the best time of year to take it. We are in Scotland so 42% tax from £42663 upwards so i think the balance of the pension…
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Advice on moving pension fund now due to unplanned retirement
Hello I was hoping I could get some advice on what the best approach would be to my current situation, which is as follows… I’m 54 and will turn 55 later this year, I hadn’t planned on retiring any time soon but some health issues have made me have to consider retiring in the next year or two. I have a defined contribution…
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Financial planner to test my retirement planning?
Hi everyone, I've been planning for my retirement for a long time, but especially in the last 4 years. I'll be 52 in May and always had an ealiest retirement date of 53 years old based on my numbers. So I'm getting very close to pulling the trigger. In the back of my mind age 53 was always the earliest I'd finish but I was…
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Any reason not to aim to empty SIPP ASAP in retirement?
Looking ahead to when I retire (within the next year or so), and setting the strategy. The situation is fairly simple: retire at 60 years old ~£700k in a SIPP Cash ISAs as cash buffer no need for a large lump sum at retirement It seems to me that the SIPP needs to be emptied as fast as possible (25% tax free, rest kept…
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Pension Basics
Hello, I am one of those people that has paid little attention to their pension other than checking in a couple of times a year and having moved jobs a few times been careful to consolidate to tidy things up. My present situation is as follows: 52 year old male with 5 years served at current employer. I have a group…
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Alpha EPA under Capita
As we all know, there are bigger fish to fry at Capita HQ right now... But I'm just noting that I don't have my annual renewal letter for EPA. The EPA page, here, still states: The cost of buying an EPA is fixed each scheme year, but will change from year to year. We will automatically renew your EPA and write to you in…
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Capita Data Breach/Barings
I’ve just had an email from (Removed by Forum Team), Head of Data Breach at Barings Law advising that he is moving to Abbleys Solicitors and taking the Capital Data Breach case with him. Has anyone else received this? Wondering what the implications of this are? Thanks
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Getting the money!
I currently have a DB pension with £22,895 in it, retirement June 2026. I was asked how I wanted to take it. I elected for the trivial commutation lump sum because I have urgent roof repairs to fund but because I closed a different pension for £8,158 some years back I’ve been told that I can’t because: “The capital value…
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Missing employer pension contribution on final payslip
Hi I left my employer in mid-February (and my P45 was issued at that stage). In March I received payment for amounts that they had failed to pay me in February. When checking my payslip I noticed that not only did they not deduct my employee pension contribution in March but they also failed to make any employer…
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On track to retire at 50? Pension diary
Hello all, After moving into our new family home and having our first child soon, I have spent some time looking at pensions to ensure they are on track. I spend a lot of time supporting charities and would really love having the option to retire at 50 to focus more of my time supporting them. I would estimate that with my…
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Searching for critical mass
I wanted to send this out as a pulse check to see if we are on the right track, generally, and if there is maybe other things we should consider. Married, 2 kids, just turned 40. My partner and I have £390,000 invested across ISAs & pension. Combined we are putting away around £2500 a month into these, and mainly into…
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Lump sum from DB Pension fund
Afternoon all, Am trying to give some general guidance to a family member who should be in receipt of a DB pension (and tax free lump sum in excess of £30k), in about 18 months time. Planning to look at their complete financial situation (cash, stocks and shares, all pensions) to see if it looks realistic to fully retire…
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Can you use pay in lieu of notice to make a personal pension contribution
Hi, I have been made redundant from 30th April 2026 because the company is closing. In additional to a redundancy payment, I will receive around £11,000 gross which is made up of my usual salary for the month, pay in lieu of notice and holiday pay. I will not be doing any further work from this date so this will be my…
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Profile Pensions annual fee?
Morning, everyone 🙂 I'd like to ask kindly anyone of Profile Pensions users, as I consider starting my private pension with them and still trying to find answers for whatever puzzles me.. Their annual fee is 0,82-0,86% with all the aspects included (ongoing investment advice as well) - but WHEN during a year do they…
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