Can I take a 25% lump sum from my final salary pension and leave the rest where it is? Steve Webb replies By Steve Webb for This Is Money Published: 07:51 BST, 29 March 2021 | Updated: 07:51 BST, 29 March 2021 I’m 57 and have a final salary pension. I want to know whether … Read more
My wife’s grandmother has a spare £100,000 that she wants to earn some income from to supplement her state pension. She has no private pension and is fed up with terrible savings rates. She does have more cash savings that will be kept separate, but she wants to get this money working harder, earning at least 3-to-5 … Read more
I worked for Tetley (of tea bags fame) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. When I left I withdrew my pension fund, amounting to some £300 or so. A few weeks ago I got a letter, supposedly from Legal & General, regarding some possible accrued pension. I followed this up using the phone number … Read more
Gemma Towle was just 16 when she had her first sunbed session. ‘I was desperate to look ‘healthy’ and tanned ready for my school prom,’ she says Gemma Towle was just 16 when she had her first sunbed session. ‘I was desperate to look ‘healthy’ and tanned ready for my school prom,’ she says. ‘I … Read more
It is a commonplace of financial advice that regularly investing small amounts can help to protect the small investor against stock market volatility. While this might generally be true, it will be more so in some cases than others – for instance, if you start to invest when shares are hitting a peak. But some … Read more
I have multiple pension pots which I was advised to not bring together as I now don’t have enough time to recoup the transfer costs and they have continued to increase by small amounts each year. I am 52 and plan to retire at 55, in summer 2022. I am in receipt of a Royal … Read more
A mother-of-two has revealed how a hug with her son ended up saving her life after it revealed a cancerous lump on her breast. Emily Makin, from Wigan, lifted her arms to cuddle Harrison, now three, when she spotted a mass at the top of her right breast last summer. Initially thinking it was just … Read more
I’ve come into some money and would like to pay down my mortgage but my lender has an overpayment limit – is there any way around this? By This Is Money Reporter Published: 07:46 GMT, 16 April 2019 | Updated: 15:40 GMT, 16 April 2019 I’ve recently received a generous lump sum of cash and … Read more
After finding a lump in her breast in January 2018, Alexandria Whitaker did what we’re all told to do: go to your doctor. But that simple step somehow became complicated. Then-24-year-old Alexandria, of Orlando, Florida, was brushed off. It can’t be anything sinister, her doctor said, because you’re 24. For that reason, the doctor explained, … Read more
People with worrying lumps in the bowel could be spared major surgery thanks to a mechanical ‘claw’ that can grasp and cut away hard-to-reach growths. Doctors in Southampton have become the first in the UK to use the device to treat pre-cancerous growths embedded deep in the lining of the small intestine. Nicknamed ‘the bear … Read more