Tuesday 9 August 2016

The Guardian and many local voters praising the decision to get rid of annuities and allow early release of pensions

It’s not a line you’re likely to see often in the Guardian, but thank you George Osborne for the towering achievement of your reign as chancellor: you got rid of annuities and saved millions of pensioners-to-be from a spiral of catastrophically low payouts from their life savings. The full article is here:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2016/aug/06/george-osborne-pensioners-annuity-income