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Podcast cut: How young workers can boost their pension (and maybe double their money)

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4.1650 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

This is Money's Simon Lambert gives his tips for young pension savers on how to give their retirement fund a big boost - and in some instances double the pot they end up with.

Transcript

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which is why when you get also enrolled into that pension, don't opt out.

0:06.0

Put in as much as you possibly can to benefit from your employer's contributions.

0:11.0

So they will maybe match it, they will add a certain percent if you put a certain percent in,

0:16.0

they might even more than match it.

0:17.0

Make sure you're taking, putting in as much as you need to to get the maximum that

0:22.5

they will give you, because otherwise you're turning down free money. Remember that the money

0:27.3

you put in automatically gets a 25% boost thanks to, you know, tax relief. And then remember that

0:36.1

over a really, really long period of time, it will make a huge

0:40.1

difference to what you have in retirement. So let's go to somebody who puts in 200 pounds a

0:48.0

month into their pension and they do it for 30 years and they get a 6% return. So 30 years, they don't start until they're

0:58.0

age 35 and they do it until they're 65. They would end up with 201,000 pounds. Now, if they started

1:07.5

when they were 25 instead, they'd end up with 400,000 pounds.

1:13.0

So basically, pretty much twice as much money, that's going to make a huge difference

1:17.4

to the retirement that you get at the end of it.

1:20.4

So if you're listening to this and you're in your 20s, put that money in your pension.

1:27.3

Because 65-year- old you will say thank

1:32.0

you in 40 years time that you did it instead of waiting until you were 35. And I know that probably

1:39.1

that 200 pounds a month is quite a lot of money for you and feels like quite a lot of money for you.

1:44.0

But bear in mind, you're not putting the whole 200 pounds in. First of money for you. It feels like quite a lot of money for you, but bear in mind,

1:45.2

you're not putting the whole £200 in. First of all, you're putting in a certain amount and then

1:49.0

your employers probably matching it, and you're also getting a 25% uplift on the money that you

1:54.1

put in. So it won't cost you £200. It'll cost you much less. And at some point, you in your

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