On target? Winning the battle on pension liberation

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Fiona Murphy examines The Pension Ombudsman's delays to decisions on pension liberation fraud and wider concerns about how liberation could shift.

The Pensions Ombudsman has recently announced delays to its decisions on 84 complaints concerning cases of suspected pension liberation fraud. In a statement, it said: "The pension liberation cases that we are looking at need very careful consideration – in particular, of the detail of the transferring and receiving schemes. "We have needed to ask for extra information in most cases – and we need to give the parties the facts and the opportunity to make their own submissions and comment on our possible findings. "We recognise that the pensions industry is highly interested to know ...

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