FCA urged to ban 'unjustified' early exit charges for all savers

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The regulator should completely ban all pension early exit charges to prevent any saver being penalised for taking advantage of the freedom and choice reforms, Hargreaves Lansdown has said.

The firm said even the 1% cap due to be put in place for leaving existing schemes should be brought down to nothing. It said exit charges were not unjustified following the pension freedom reforms....

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