“Minister: ‘Public find pension costs and charges impossible to comprehend”’

Feb 11, 2022 | Pensions

Here’s the pot calling the kettle black and throwing large boulders in their glass houses. Let’s say you give the average worker-with-a-pension-man-on-the-London-omnibus the average booklet explaining the average charges on his or her pension. Then an HMRC explanation of their tax and national insurance bill and how it’s calculated; or perhaps details of pension annual and lifetime allowances or the tax treatment of benefits of various types of pensions. I think they would quickly realise that it’s not us who’s bamboozling the pension-paying public, Mr Minister.

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