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What to do about small pension pots?

The UK government is postponing pension 'pot follows member' reform. Which is fine, up to a point....

What to do about small pension pots?
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Last week, the new pensions minister Ros Altmann announced the postponement of “pot follows member” – my idea for avoiding the creation of millions of small, stranded pension pots. I agree with her priorities, but the problem must still be tackled eventually.

In the last government, we proposed "pot follows member" as a solution to one of the chief problems that threatens the success of the ongoing auto-enrolment programme, which enrolls savers automatically into a workplace pension scheme.

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