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08/09/2015

Call You and Yours: Pension Pots

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Call You and Yours: Pension Pots

Listeners discuss cashing in their pension pots following rule changes in April.

Since April, if you have a pension fund and are over 55, you can now take some or all of it in cash. The first figures on how pensioners have reacted to the new freedom to allocate their pension pots suggests around 5% have taken some cash to spend amounting to £2.7 billion in all. If you are one of those why did you cash it in and what did you spend the money on? Perhaps you have been contacted by crooks hoping to trick you out of your pension. Maybe you have handed cash over. Call You & Yours today and tell us your story.

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