Tories suggest 401k-style 'Lifetime Savings Account'

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David Willetts, shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, has unveiled proposals for a "flexible" savings wrapper allowing partial withdrawals of personal contributions before retirement, as the Tory Party's pitch to solve the UK's savings crisis.

“LiSA” - the Lifetime Savings Account - would, possibly, match contributor’s monthly savings pound-for-pound with government contributions to encourage savings. Instead of the current system of offering tax advantages on money locked in until retirement, “each month, as you put money into your Lifetime Savings Account, the Government will put money in too", Willetts says. Government contributions could not be touched until retirement under the Tory proposals, but personal contributions could, within limits, such that people with short-term cashflow problems could access their savings,...

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