Webb: Annuity trade-in guaranteed to go ahead

Carmen Reichman
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The creation of a second-hand annuity market is guaranteed to happen, according to former pensions minister Steve Webb, who suggested the Treasury has already ‘banked' the cash it expects to receive from the policy.

Webb (pictured) said the Chancellor had made provisions in the region of half a billion pounds a year over the next two years to be collected in tax revenue generated by the move. New pensions m...

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