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The Pensions Act 2008 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The principal change brought about by the Act is that all workers will have to opt out of an occupational pension plan of their employer, rather than opt in. This is referred to as automatic enrolment, and moves a significant amount of responsibility onto the employer to ...
The National Payments Plan was an annual document in which the Payments Council set out its strategic vision for the future development of payment services in the UK. The first national payments plan was published in May 2008 and updates were published on an annual basis. Closure of cheque clearing. The first major move of the Payments Council ...
Payment protection insurance ( PPI ), also known as credit insurance, credit protection insurance, or loan repayment insurance, is an insurance product that enables consumers to ensure repayment of credit if the borrower dies, becomes ill or disabled, loses a job, or faces other circumstances that may prevent them from earning income to service ...
A pension (/ ˈ p ɛ n ʃ ən /; from Latin pensiō 'payment') is a fund into which amounts are paid regularly during an individual's working career, and from which periodic payments are made to support the person's retirement from work. A pension may be: a "defined benefit plan", where defined periodic payments are made in retirement. The ...
Personal pension scheme. A personal pension scheme ( PPS ), sometimes called a personal pension plan ( PPP ), is a UK tax-privileged individual investment vehicle, with the primary purpose of building a capital sum to provide retirement benefits, although it will usually also provide death benefits. These plans first became available on 1 July ...
Personal Independence Payment (abbreviated to PIP and usually pronounced as one word) is a welfare benefit in the United Kingdom that is intended to help working age adults with the extra costs of living with a health condition or a disability. It is available in England, Wales and Northern Ireland but not in Scotland where Adult Disabled ...
Hire purchase. A hire purchase ( HP ), [1] also known as an installment plan, is an arrangement whereby a customer agrees to a contract to acquire an asset by paying an initial installment (e.g., 40% of the total) and repaying the balance of the price of the asset plus interest over a period of time. Other analogous practices are described as ...
Self-invested personal pension. A self-invested personal pension ( SIPP) is the name given to the type of UK government -approved personal pension scheme which allows individuals to make their own investment decisions from the full range of investments approved by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). SIPPs are "tax wrappers", allowing tax rebates on ...