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.
“Why you should never retire”
On my 50th birthday, I will always remember, amongst the card or two I received was a letter from Saga’ who’d managed to find out my age through the wonder of the internet, and were pleased to tell me I now qualified to join my parents and go on holiday with them.