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No PASA Nada? Discrediting Occupational Pension Schemes.
PASA is discrediting occupational pension schemes. On the 28 January 2016, PASA (Pension Administration Standards Association) issued a press release. They were pleased to announce that they wished to award Royal Mail with their accredited standard. Basically meaning that PASA considered Royal Mail, as a trustee for thousands of pensions, to be worthy of PASA’s
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3 Watchwords used by Pension Scammers
3 Watchwords used by Pension Scammers VISIT PENSION-LIFE.COM Pension Scammers ACA Pension Life Chairman Angie Brooks was recently quoted as revealing the top words used by pension scammers:
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WASPI Debate in Parliament 7th January 2016 With Mhairi Black
Parliament debated the WASPI issue at the beginning of 2016. The culmination of months of hard work by the WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners finally arrived on 7th January 2016. Mhairi Black (SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South) asked the Government to introduce “transitional arrangements” to help the hundreds of thousands of
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WASPI and The Five Blind Men
The well-written and informative epistles by Frances Coppola, Henry Tapper, Joan Bakewell, Paul Lewis etc., remind me of the tale of the five blind men and the elephant: “Five blind men stood in a ring around an elephant, and were asked to describe it. Each in turn reached out and touched the animal and
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The 2015 Ark schemes’ accounts
Now that the Ark scheme accounts are audited and published on the Dalriada website, I have summarised them below and also attached the summarised spreadsheet separately. You can view each individual scheme’s accounts for yourself here: http://dalriadatrustees.co.uk/ark/ The most notable features are: 1. HMRC have issued demands on the scheme itself in the form of a
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Dear Ros, A Pension Wish List
Your Christmas Pension Wish List! Dear Ros, Seasons greetings. We thought you might like to see what are the items, we at Pension Life, would like for this Christmas and the New Year. No.1 We would like to see that HMRC implement a thorough Due Diligence strategy. No.2 At Pension Life we feel that the
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Pension Life Wish List
Pension Life Wish List: make a wish; make a list: make a pension wish list! Pension Life is still dealing with so many victims of scams and scammers. None of the Pension Life wishes published in December 2015 have come true. In the intervening two years, thousands more people have lost part or all of
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Your Pension Minister Ros Altmann – Westminster Job Centre
On a rainy Tuesday, we wiggled our way round the back of Westminster Cathedral to the DWP which houses Pensions Minister Ros Altmann and also Work and Pensions minister Iain Duncan-Smith. As it turned out, it also housed a security guard called “Babs”. We were a trio from Ark Class Action which represents victims of
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Pension Liberation “Loans”
Email to Michael Bridges, Compliance, HMRC from Angie Brooks, ARK Class Action – re pension liberation loans. 11 November 2015 Dear Mr. Bridges, Re: Pension Liberation “Loans” Thank you for calling me yesterday and for discussing the various aspects of the pension transfers and “loans”. Some important points arose from our discussion, and I
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Pension Liberation Costs
Pension liberation fraud costs victims £millions every year. It ruins lives and causes desperate poverty in retirement. But the situation is made far worse because the State has badly miscalculated how much it will cost to support these victims for the rest of their lives. The amount of tax actually collected will be far outstripped
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