11/09/2023

Pension Awareness Week 2023

Pensions can be a complicated topic, and Pension Awareness aims to provide free, impartial, and straightforward pension information.

First Actuarial are official supporters of Pension Awareness...

07/08/2023

DWP’s Midlife MOT

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released a new Midlife MOT website with the aim of helping workers to plan for their future by looking at work, health, and money.

This free website...

18/07/2023

Pension Credit

Pension Credit gives you extra money to help with your living costs if you’re over State Pension age and on a low income. You may be able to get Pension Credit even if you have other income, savings...

20/06/2023

Pensions Dashboard Programme

A ‘Pensions Dashboard’ will allow an individual to see all their pension information in a single, secure place online.

Earlier this month, the Department for Work and Pensions announced a delay to...

05/05/2023

Meeting summaries

The Trustees are starting to publish brief summaries of each of their meetings, so you can see the main issues that are being discussed.  The first summary, of the meeting held on 22 March 2023, is...

01/04/2023

The Annual Allowance and the Lifetime Allowance

The pension savings you can make tax-free in each tax year (the year beginning 6 April) to all pension arrangements combined are limited to the Annual Allowance (AA).  The Chancellor announced in his ...