Duck under the lifetime limit

The £1m lifetime allowance for pension savings may pose a real headache for hundreds of thousands of savers, says David Prosser.

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Hitting the pension limit may cause a headache
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Many will consider it an enviable problem to have, but for hundreds of thousands of savers, the £1m lifetime allowance for pension savings may pose a real headache. When the government cut the allowance from £1.25m last year, it argued that just 4% of savers reached retirement with pension funds above the cap. However, pension professionals insist that up to 500,000 people could be affected.

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David Prosser
Business Columnist

David Prosser is a regular MoneyWeek columnist, writing on small business and entrepreneurship, as well as pensions and other forms of tax-efficient savings and investments. David has been a financial journalist for almost 30 years, specialising initially in personal finance, and then in broader business coverage. He has worked for national newspaper groups including The Financial Times, The Guardian and Observer, Express Newspapers and, most recently, The Independent, where he served for more than three years as business editor.