Single financial guidance body to go live this winter - Guy Opperman

Royal assent in May

Hannah Godfrey
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The new single financial guidance and claims body will be up and running by winter this year, according to pensions and financial inclusion minister Guy Opperman.

Speaking at the Association of British Insurers (ABI) event Retirement Interventions and Innovation, Opperman (pictured) said he expected the body to be up and running by towards the end of the year. The new body will combine the Money Advice Service, The Pensions Advisory Service and Pension Wise into one single guidance body.   Opperman also revealed the recruitment process to find a new chair had already begun, and that he hopes the Financial Guidance and Claims bill, which will create the new body, will gain royal assent by May. The Pensions Advisory Service chief executive ...

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