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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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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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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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: 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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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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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 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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LETTER TO PRUDENTIAL’S CHAIRMAN RE TRANSFERS TO PENSION SCAMS Dear Mr. Manduca As you are the Chairman of Prudential, and in light of the recent POS determination in respect of a Capita Oak victim’s transfer out of Prudential and in to a scheme which was clearly a pension liberation scam, I feel it is important
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Capita Oak pension scam: Imperial accounts 23.1.15 Ark Class Action 24 Calle Cuatro Esquinas, Lanjaron 18420, Granada, Spain [email protected] [email protected] 0034674746663 (mobile) 0034858995645 (landline) www.pension-life.com Roger Chant, Director – Imperial Trustee Services Ltd.
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toCapita Oak pension scam: hundreds search for pensions they transferred after cold calls. In a special You and Yours, we investigate a web of companies that sold millions of pounds of pension investments to hundreds of people – and has left many of them desperately trying to find out where their money has gone. Click
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For the benefit of all 300 odd members of Capita Oak, here is an email that was sent today to Downs & Co, the accountants acting on behalf of Christopher Payne, the director of the trustees Imperial. This email has been circulated to many Capita Oak members and other interested parties such as the police
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