Has Anyone On Here Cashed In Their Pension Pot?

ToraToraTora | 15:45 Thu 28th Jan 2016 | News

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TWR

I would not take the bait TTT, each to their own but I think it's too much of a risk.

VHG

Trouble is you have no idea how long you are going to live, and reducing your pension by taking some out is not a great idea.

I have a final salary pension that pays me £2000 a month, plus a state pension of £500 a month so I feel very happy at getting £2500 a month for "doing nothing" (which I will get for the rest of my life).

In fact I have more money now than when I was working (as I now have no mortgage nor am I paying loads of money IN to my pension).

It is only as you get older and stop working that you realise how important a pension is.

sunny-dave

It will be interesting to see how the Benefits System deals with people who have knowingly/deliberately left themselves without enough retirement income because they have cashed in a pension and spent it ...

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I don't like the idea of spending it on an annuity but the alternatives are fraught with danger, even if you are sensible. I wouldn't cash it in just to blow it, I might If I could come up with a way of generating a better income than the meagre annuity rates but without a load of hassle. I had hoped that the finance industry would have come up with some idea but alas nothing much beyond the standard fare seems to be out there.

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it'll do what it does now dave, give them the lot for nowt. Work hard to provide for your retirement and you get kicked in the plums.

ludwig

//It will be interesting to see how the Benefits System deals with people who have knowingly/deliberately left themselves without enough retirement income because they have cashed in a pension and spent it ...//

Hopefully it won't treat them any differently to those who've knowingly/deliberately left themselves without enough retirement income because they couldn't or wouldn't pay into a pension in the first place.