TPR: scrapped restrictions on pensions access to fuel liberation

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The government's decision to allow anyone over the age of 55 to take their entire pot as cash has the potential to drive up liberation cases, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has said.

In the Budget 2014, Chancellor George Osborne announced people approaching retirement could access their full pensions subject to their marginal rate of income tax in that year (PP Online, 19 March...

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