The European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee has put forward final amendments t...
The European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee has put forward final amendments to the proposed Occupational Pensions Directive that do not threaten the lump sum payment. The threat was raised in some of the UK's more anti-EU press last month, but in a call to IFAonline, the Committee's vice chairman John Purvis, a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party MEP confirmed that the threat was more theoretical than actual. "Many committee members and those in the left bloc are not keen on the 'lump sum', which is very much a UK matter," he said then. Howeve...
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