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10 AUG 2026

Your 8% Pension Minimum Isn't Really 8% — Here's Why

The legal 8% minimum auto-enrolment contribution is only taken from qualifying earnings, so on a £45,000 salary it…

10 AUG 2026

Your FOS Complaint Success Rate: 24% Not 37%

The most surprising figure is that Warwick researchers say the FOS’s published 37% consumer uphold rate for 2023/24…

10 AUG 2026

Your Pension Tax-Free Cash Could Cost Your Family £40,000

If you take your pension tax-free cash and spend or move it outside the pension wrapper, it can inflate your estate…

10 AUG 2026

25% Pension Tax-Free Lump Sum: Keep More Money | Sarah Explains

A saver with a £100,000 pension can usually take £25,000 tax-free, but if they take the rest as cash in one go, that…

19 JUL 2026

Cash ISA vs Stocks ISA: Why You Could Lose £270,000 by 2027

A basic-rate taxpayer who maxes a cash ISA at 3% instead of a stocks & shares ISA earning the 9.6% average historic…

19 JUL 2026

Losing £24k Pension Tax Relief: Annual Allowance Mistake

If you’re a higher‑rate taxpayer in the UK and fail to use your full £60,000 pension annual allowance in 2025/26, you…

19 JUL 2026

Over 65? Keep Your Full £20,000 Cash ISA From April 2027

If you’re 65 or over, you can still put the full £20,000 a year into tax‑free Cash ISAs from April 2027 onwards,…

19 JUL 2026

Pension Inheritance Tax 2027: £160,000 to HMRC

A £400,000 unused pension could hand £160,000 to HMRC if it falls into inheritance tax at the standard 40% rate, and…

19 JUL 2026

Your ISA Now Charges 22% Tax On Cash From April 2027

From 6 April 2027, a basic-rate taxpayer with £20,000 of “safe” cash inside a stocks & shares ISA earning 4% will…

19 JUL 2026

Your Pension's Tax-Free Cash Is Capped at £268,275 — Here's What to Do

If your pension pot grows from £1,073,100 to £2,000,000, the old lifetime allowance would have hit you with up to…

19 JUL 2026

£1,073,100 Lump Sum Death Benefit Allowance: £81,000 Tax Bill

A 45‑year‑old with £800,000 in UK pensions could unwittingly leave their children facing an unexpected income tax…

19 JUL 2026

Your £268,275 Lump Sum Allowance Explained (LSA Rules)

A saver with a £1,000,000 pension pot can still usually take only £268,275 tax-free in lump sums; anything above that…

19 JUL 2026

Lifetime Allowance Abolished: £268,275 Tax-Free Cash Cap Trap

A saver with a pension pot above £1,073,100 no longer faces the old 55% LTA tax charge on excess benefits, because…

04 JUL 2026

Your Cash ISA Cut to £12,000: What Under-65s Need to Know

From 6 April 2027, a 40‑year‑old saver who has been putting the full £20,000 into a Cash ISA each year will suddenly…

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