Lib Dem 'property from pensions' plan: innovation or disaster?

Assessing plans allowing parents to access their lump-sum early to guarantee children's mortgages

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Rachel Dalton looks at Clegg and Webb's plan to allow parents to access pensions to help children get on the property ladder.

Conference season always throws up ideas from political parties that are towards the more fanciful end of the scale, but Nick Clegg’s plan to allow parents or grandparents to guarantee their childr...

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