Pensions Ombudsman announces further delays to liberation decisions

But the Ombudsman said it expects to be able to publish the decisions in the autumn. In an update, it said: "The pension liberation cases that we are looking at need very careful consideration - in particular of the detail of the transferring and receiving schemes." The regulatory body has been investigating 84 complaints about pension liberation, most of them about blocked transfers where people have not been allowed to transfer out of schemes because the provider thought it was an "unauthorised payment". Providers have also often prevented transfers when they have suspected the i...