MIR annuity hurdle could be as high as £300,000

Jonathan Stapleton
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The pension pot needed to satisfy the minimum income requirement could need to be as much as £300,000 in order to stop people falling back on state benefits, Towers Watson says.

Yesterday, HM Treasury said the government was set to scrap the requirement to purchase an annuity and abolish alternatively secured pensions (PP Online, July 16). However Towers Watson said the...

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