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The Pensions Management Institute comments on DWP’s Call for Evidence on Lifetime Providers.

 Chair of the PMI’s Policy and Public Affairs Committee and PMI Advisory Council member Tim Box said: “We are concerned that this is the wrong consultation at the wrong time. While we generally support consideration of changes to the UK pension system that improve member outcomes and the overall efficiency and functioning of the system, we believe that any changes as fundamental as these need to be properly thought through, based on evidence and the development of consensus.

 The Government needs to explain more fully what it is trying to achieve and provide more detail about how it intends to do this. There may be some merit in considering how a Lifetime Provider system could help connect people with their pensions and provide better outcomes but there are many policy initiatives already in various stages of development which could also achieve these goals.

 We urge the Government to spend the time building the evidence base that Lifetime Providers will improve retirement outcomes for the majority of members and gain consensus about this before jumping into wholesale change of the pensions system.”
  

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