Pension scheme members 'shamelessly bamboozled'
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week a report from the Work and Pensions Select Committee says British Steel pension scheme members were targeted by "vulture" financial advisers after Tata was allowed to offload its retirement fund. It found that members were "shamelessly bamboozled" into transferring out of their final salary schemes, and criticises the Pensions Regulator and the FCA. The report also urged the FCA to ban contingent charging where financial advisers receive a fee for transfer advice, calling it "a key driver of poor advice." Guest Martin Bamford Chartered Financial Planner and Managing Director at Informed Choice
Reporter Tony Bonsignore examines the issue of child maintenance and self-employed earnings as a bill on child maintenance evasion progresses towards its second reading. It's seeking to crack down on parents who use their self-employed status to "disguise the means they have available to financially support their non-resident children." Guest: Sumi Rabindrakumar from Gingerbread, the national charity for single parent families.
Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) intend to lobby government to make the necessary changes to introduce what would be the UK's first collective defined contribution (CDC) scheme. It follows Royal Mail's decision to close its defined benefit scheme, which essentially pays out based on years worked and salary earned. How would the CDC scheme work and is there room for another pension option? Hilary Salt, founder of First Actuarial, who advised the CWU on the new scheme and Hugh Nolan, Chair of the Defined Contribution Committee for the Association of Consulting Actuaries, discuss.
Presenter: Paul Lewis Producer: Charmaine Cozier Editor: Jim Frank.
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| 0:40.8 | Before we get to the program, Hilary Salt is an actuary. |
| 0:43.9 | She's with me. |
| 0:45.3 | Is there any scope, Hillary Salt, for good company pension schemes now? |
| 0:50.2 | I think there is. |
| 0:51.3 | Many employers are now, I think, getting rather concerned about the fact that they can see that many of their employees will reach retirement with an inadequate DC pot. |
| 1:03.1 | The employer won't be able to manage those people out of the business because they, you know, they can't force people out with age discrimination requirements now. |
| 1:11.2 | And so the only way that the employees can see those people leaving the business |
| 1:15.1 | is if they manage the moat on the grounds of capability. |
| 1:18.3 | That's a HR nightmare for employers. |
| 1:20.5 | They don't want that. |
| 1:21.4 | No, but they'd like better pensions so that people are more likely to leave |
| 1:25.4 | because they can afford to do so. |
| 1:27.2 | Absolutely. |
| 1:27.9 | So that's a new driver in good pensions. |
| 1:30.7 | Thanks very much for that and there's more from Hillary later in the programme. |
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