Advisers should be aware consolidating occupational schemes into another personal pension contract could lead to a loss of tax-free cash for their clients, says Standard Life.
In yet another ongoing A-Day issue, the insurer points out people who are entitled to more than 25% tax-free cash through their occupational pension schemes could lose their entitlement if they want to move their benefits into just one plan. It says if a client, made up of a husband and wife, had, for example, three executive pension plans (EPPs) they can transfer just one plan into another scheme such as a self invested personal pension (Sipp) without any adverse consequences under the block transfer rules, but if they transfer all three into another scheme then they will lose entitlement...
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