The Retirement Income Reform Campaign believes current annuity law is not only too restrictive to those coming up to retirement and but also unfair to women
The Retirement Income Reform Campaign (RIRC) is examining whether it will re-introduce MP David Curry's private members bill, aimed at ending the age 75 compulsory annuity purchase requirement, when parliament sits. The Curry bill had progressed through Parliament but was dropped over the summer break and will have to be re-introduced at the start of the new session. While this is something the campaign is considering but believes it will be unlikely to go ahead. The reform committee is instead changing its tactics and trying to push ahead with its argument that the current annuity env...
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