In the latest Retirement Planner poll we gauge opinion on pensions minister Steve Webb's plan to allow retirees to sell their annuity contract for cash.
The Department for Work and Pensions is drawing up plans to enable pensioners to sell their annual lifetime incomes in return for a lump sum at any time after they have retired - thereby extending pension freedom to those already retired. Do you think the plan could work? Click HERE to let us know your opinion. In the last poll of 2014 RP asked its readers if the annuity death tax changes were "a job half done". More than half of those who responded, 51%, were unsure if the changes announced by the Treasury in December would be effective. Just over a third, 36%, thought the anno...
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