How to boost your pension pot

Retirees report having £119,000 less in their pension than they had hoped – but there are ways to boost your pot now so you don’t have to sacrifice your retirement

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UK adults face a significant shortfall in the amount of pension savings they have at retirement compared to what they wanted to retire on, potentially impacting their retirement lifestyle – unless they take action now.

There are several ways to boost your pensions, and many of them work even as you get close to retirement age. Even people with a six figure pension can benefit.

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Laura Miller

Laura Miller is an experienced financial and business journalist. Formerly on staff at the Daily Telegraph, her freelance work now appears in the money pages of all the national newspapers. She endeavours to make money issues easy to understand for everyone, and to do justice to the people who regularly trust her to tell their stories. She lives by the sea in Aberystwyth. You can find her tweeting @thatlaurawrites