Retirement options—DC members

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Practice notes

Retirement options—DC members

Published by a LexisNexis Pensions expert

Practice notes
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FORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT 1: Section 10 of the Finance Act 2022 will increase the Normal minimum pension age (NMPA) from 55 to 57 on 6 April 2028 (save for members of the firefighters, police and armed forces public service pension schemes). The Finance Act 2022 will also give members of registered pension schemes a right to take their benefits before age 57, if on or before 4 November 2021 they either had an ‘unqualified right’ to take benefits or were in the process of a substantive transfer to a scheme offering an unqualified right to a protected pension age of less than 57 on or before 4 November 2021. To benefit from this new 2028 protection, the rules of the pension scheme must have included (on 11 February 2021) an unqualified right to take the entitlement to scheme benefits before age 57. For further information, see Practice Note: Increasing the normal minimum pension age (NMPA) to 57—pensions impact.

FORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT 2: On 22 November 2023, the DWP published a response to its Consultation on supporting

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Options definition
What does Options mean?

The right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a fixed quantity of a commodity, currency or security at a fixed price, on or until a particular date.

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