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Britons aged between 25 and 35 are showing significant awareness and take-up of protection and health insurance products, according to new research.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published guidelines for individuals and healthcare professionals regarding patients about to return to work.

Now Health International has published a how-to guide brokers may hand to clients relocating abroad for the first time.

Changes to rules around withdrawing small pension pots as lump sums could lead to large scale abuse of the system, Hargreaves Lansdown has warned.

The Treasury is set to allow pensioners to withdraw small personal pensions as cash.

The government has proposed to include the provision and coordination of debt advice as one of the official statutory duties of the Money Advice Service (MAS).

The Treasury will not axe tax relief on compensation for certain previous pension mis-selling cases as previously planned.

Inheritance and capital gains tax-free allowances will rise more slowly in future, following a government decision to uncouple them from the retail prices index (RPI) so they rise in line with the lower consumer prices index (CPI).

The Treasury has extended its proposal to introduce a lower rate of inheritance tax (IHT) where people leave a charitable legacy of 10% or more on death.

Leeds-based IFA Lampott Ltd must defend a £2m claim for damages at the High Court, after it invested more than a third of a company pension scheme in failed life settlement firm Keydata.