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This is Steve Allen's A Little Bit Extra, leading Britain's conversation. You're listening to

our podcast of Steve Allen. Morning everybody. Welcome

along to your free podcast for today, Thursday, October the 13th. God, that was close.

Nearly became Friday the 13th, but it isn't, thank goodness. So anyway, do you remember I was

telling you some time ago about my private pensions? And one of them is where the company, talk about dragging their teeth.

This is a big pension company. All they've got to do, it's matured, they've written to me.

I put it in the hands of my financial advisor, which makes it sound really posh. But it's not. It's a case

of I want 25% of my total pension, and then the rest goes into a pot and then we earn interest off that and if I need to

take any money out of it I just write to them and they transfer money it's not complicated one of them

a vivor is fairly straightforward and no like the other one should be it should be also straightforward

but they want to see my signature again just so the luckily my financial advisor has sent me a letter all I had to do

is sign it and date it put it in a prepaid envelope for this for this insurance company and it's got

the price of how much I get on it or how much the pot is worth and so within about a week's time

they should transfer the money over to my financial advisor.

And then I get 25%, which I'm really looking forward to it.

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