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Pensions advise needed !!!!transfer value reduce by £100k

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Needacupofteaandcrackers · 28/01/2025 18:18

Hello Please can anyone advise me.

On the online site the transfer value of my pension has reduced by over £100k to £300k, since 2021. The yearly pension has increased slightly to £16 per year, when I am 60years, in just on over 2 years. This is for LCP Telefonica pension.

When I rang them today they just quoted “market forces “ and in an email have said nothing is affected and they reassure “some reassurance that this is simply about a change in the cost to the scheme of meeting the pension promises they have made to you, and is common across the industry.”

But this is not true because my 25% tax free amount has now similarly reduced, so it has a significant impact ?? So why are they trying to bamboozle me !!! And how do I respond?

This is in contrast to colleagues at aviva pensions who have seen yearly increases.

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Tryingtokeepgoing · 28/01/2025 18:36

The rise in gilt yields since 2021 will have led to a drop in the transfer value of a DB scheme, if you’re looking to transfer out, but won’t make any difference to the actual benefits received if you stick with it. At one point DB schemes, when interest rates wee almost 0%, were offering 30/40 times the annul penson payable to get rid of the liability. Today, many DB schemes are in surplus, interest rates are higher and they have no need to aggressively dump liabilities.

MostHighlyFlavoredGravy · 28/01/2025 18:35

They will have changed their actuarial assumptions used to calculate transfer values to reflect changes in market conditions since 2021. No one is trying to "bamboozle" you and you don't need to respond.

craigth162 · 28/01/2025 18:31

If it's a final.salary pension the transfer value is in no way related to the tax free cash. The cash is based on the pension figure. The only way it would have reduced would be if the scheme trustees have changed the commutation factors since your previous quote.

Beanzmeanz · 28/01/2025 18:29

As above what are your funds invested in? Is this a pension based on your final earnings and number of years service or a regular pension invested in the stock market and dependent on fund performance?
Also a transfer value rather than a current value may have penalties.
A 33% drop is a lot if it is in stocks

SovietSpy · 28/01/2025 18:27

Are you contributing to this pension?
What funds is the pension invested in?