Would house price crash be a blow for equity release
Scare stories about equity release may be rather overdone – Ros is quoted by the Daily Express on her views about equity release loans and house price crash ( link to pdf )
UK savers casualties of Brexit process
Ros highlights in Actuarial Post magazine that dealing with Brexit has pushed many urgent pension and later life policy reforms onto the back burner – including pensions dashboard and social care funding. ( link to pdf )
Politicians issue fresh call for secondary annuities market
MPs have backed calls for a secondary annuities market to be permitted, as previously called for by Ros reports IPE. ( link to pdf )
Call to introduce lower annual pension limit and flat rate of tax relief
Yourmoney.com reports on recommendations from Treasury Select Committee that tax relief should be converted to flat rate bonus and Lifetime Allowance should be scrapped in favour of annual limits only. ( link to pdf )
Abolish Lifetime ISA, MPs demand
Website YourMoney.com reports on the Treasury Select Committee’s recommendation to abolish Lifetime ISAs, which are endorsed by Ros. ( link to pdf )
MPs call for abolition of LISA just 16 months after launch
Investment Week reports on recommendations to abolish the Lifetime ISA, which Ros agrees with. ( link to pdf )
New fight to win pension rights for 5m
Ros writes for the Daily Express about the injustice of denying pension freedoms to past annuity customers. ( link to pdf )
HMRC data disaster sees pensions cut by half
Daily Express highlights that pensioners may face severe pension cuts due to administration errors in their pension records – which are no fault of the pensioner. ( link to pdf )
Tens of thousands of pensioners face income CUTS while others could get a boost after HMRC identified DECADES of payment errors
Daily Mail criticises HMRC for problems of incorrect recording of GMPs. ( link to pdf )
Tens of thousands of UK workers have been UNDERPAID on their pensions after taxman cock-up
Daily Star reports on Ros’ criticism of pensioners being forced to pay for mistakes made by others. ( link to pdf )