Latest News – Unipart Pensions

25Jul

Changes to Lifetime Allowance and Annual Allowance

Wendy

The government have made some changes to the tax regime around pensions. These are set out below: From 6 April 2023 The annual allowance (the amount that you can save into a pension tax free each year) is increasing from £40,000 to £60,000. The money purchase annual allowance (the amount that [...]

25Jul

Capita Cyber Incident – Update

Wendy

Uncategorised

We wrote to pensioner members of UGPS, RBS and JVPS earlier in the Summer outlining the Capita Cyber incident (https://www.capita.com/news/update-actions-taken-resolve-cyber-incident). We had not had the specific data items exfiltrated so we wrote to all members highlighting that there was a [...]

31May

Capita Cyber Incident

Wendy

Uncategorised

If you are a pensioner member of RBS, UGPS or JVPS, you should have by now received a letter from the Chair outlining that some of our Scheme data was exflitrated as part of the Capita Cyber Incident (https://www.capita.com/news/update-actions-taken-resolve-cyber-incident). A generic copy of [...]

15Mar

Increase to Minimum Pension Age from 2028

Wendy

All Schemes

The Finance Act 2021 received Royal Assent on 24 February 2022. This means that the Government has raised the age from which an individual can take their pension from age 55, to age 57. This increase will take effect from 2028. It is expected that there will be some transitional provisions [...]

11Sep

All Schemes, Announcements, General News

24Jul

Unipart Pensions website

All Schemes, Announcements, General News

Welcome to the Unipart Pensions website. This is a new website which will continue to be developed over the next few months. You may not currently see information for the pension scheme of which you are a member as we are putting the site live over a number of phases. Please check back again at [...]