Treasury to get £1.6bn windfall from ‘unsuspecting pension investors'
HM Treasury could land a healthy windfall of £1.6bn as up to 200,000 people are expected to cash in the pension pots in April, according to research.
Ipsos Mori research commissioned by Hargreaves Lansdown shows the expected scale of the boost to the national coffers as a result of the pension changes announce in the Budget. Almost one in eight defined...
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