Mis-Sold Merseyside Pension Fund Claims
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Did You Transfer Away From The Merseyside Pension Fund?
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WHAT IS THE MERSEYSIDE PENSION FUND?
The Merseyside Pension Fund is a local government pension for many public sector employees and contractors who either work or have worked in the Merseyside area for their local authority.
Like many local authority pension schemes, many of the members can look forward to a defined benefit pension package, promising a guaranteed income in retirement, no matter how long that lasts.
These pensions are considered safe, with all the risk resting with the trustees, and protected up to 90% with the Pension Protection fund.
Yet that hasn’t stopped people transferring their retirement benefits away from the Merseyside Pension Fund, but why?
RIGHT AND WRONG PENSION TRANSFERS
For some time now, people have had the option to move their final salary pensions, transferring them into a private scheme if they need to.
But just because you can, doesn’t always mean that you should. Leaving a final salary pension scheme may mean leaving behind some rare and valuable benefits, such as death in service benefits.
Perhaps most importantly, people who transferred away from the Merseyside Pension may have been giving up a guaranteed income based on their salary for retirement, and swapping it for the results of a volatile investment market.
The FCA’s rules to financial advisers about who they should recommend a pension transfer to are pretty strict, meaning advisers should be very careful about who they say should transfer. They need to be making sure that a pension transfer is in their client’s best interest, and doesn’t expose their retirement fund to more risk than can be afforded.
Unfortunately, this isn’t always what happens…
MIS-SOLD FINAL SALARY PENSIONS AND COMPENSATION
A mis-sold pension transfer can go wrong in a few different ways, from losing up to around 50% of the pension value when transferred around 10 years before retirement (Recent study by Royal London), or having the money invested in high-risk investments that later fail, causing the pension to lose all value.
Swapping a final salary pension for a private one means swapping certainty for uncertainty, and is only right for some people.
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What Makes A Pension Transfer Mis-Sold?
Moving a final salary or other defined benefit pension is rarely advisable, except in certain situations. While moving your pension may earn your adviser big fees and commissions, you may lose more than you hoped:
Do you know how people complained about mis-sold investments and pensions in the last year?
A lot. Over twenty thousand complaints were made about mis-sold pensions and investments in 2020/21, a figure which had doubled since the year before.. It’s no secret how serious this problem is, and it just seems to keep getting worse.
Have You Been A Victim Of Financial Mis-Selling?
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especially if you’ve been misled in the past.
But getting in touch with us won’t commit you to anything. We want to toss you a lifeboat and guide you through the choppy waters of the financial ocean, not leave you struggling to stay afloat. Our experts are here to offer advice and support on financial claims. We know what we’re doing and you can trust that if you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.
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