How much income do you need for a comfortable retirement? New research has put a post-pandemic price on the answer. When the Chancellor announces tax rises that are One traditional way to answer the question of how much income you will need in retirement is to fix the amount as a percentage of […]
Latest HMRC figures show that the annual allowance continues to help fill its depleted coffers. The annual allowance is an important number in the pension world. It sets the maximum tax-efficient amount of total contributions in a tax year – from any source – that can be made to pension schemes for your benefit. […]
Recent data suggests the number of company car drivers continues to fall. Once upon a time, the aspiration of many an office worker was to climb the ladder to the height at which a company car became part of the remuneration package. The appeal of being liberated from the expenses of motoring – sometimes including […]
The temporary Triple Lock suspension has cost pensioners up to £9.35 a week. Call it a good day for burying bad news. Within hours of the Prime Minister announcing his long-awaited plans for social care in England in early September, the Department for Work and Pensions revealed that the Triple Lock for the new and […]
Criminals are taking advantage of well-known lottery draws to trick victims into parting with their money. New data from Action Fraud, the national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime, reveals almost £1 million has been lost to lottery fraud in the past seven months. What is lottery fraud? Criminals will contact unsuspecting victims informing […]
The Value In Thinking Ahead Retirement is something most of us look forward to − particularly on a Monday morning. However, those thoughts are often little more than a whimsical cocktail of not having to work and prolonged holidays. The reality could be rather different, particularly if your retirement date is some way off. For […]
