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GMP Guaranteed Minimum Pension cap query

My "final salary" pension increases with inflation up to a cap at 5%. I was "contracted-out" (if that's relevant). A substantial part of my pension is identified as a "Guaranteed Minimum Pension"...

Silvabod

State Pension Dependant Allowance for wife.

My wife is 9 years younger than me, and (like me) no longer working. She is 56. My State pension includes ?52 a week for her as a "dependant" (despite us being legally married). She has no income, and...

Silvabod

NI pension, wife approaching pension age

We've been married 28 years, I am 66, wife 57. She has few NI contributions. She stayed home till our 3 kids went to Uni (1980 - 2000), then worked part-time. I was redundant/retired early, she...

Silvabod

VAT EXEMPTION - Registered Charity supplies

A tax-exempt individual can provide form R85 to get tax-free (i.e gross) interest - that Inland Revenue. Is there a similar form or method for a Registered Charity to provide to suppliers in order to...

lepers

online share dealing

can anyone recommend a good online share dealing service? i see all the banks offer them and was wondering if anyone had any experience of them? cheers

Silvabod

State Pension - EXACT qualifying date?

If born on 1st Jan 2000, one will be 65 on 31st Dec 2065 (and the "birthday" is actually the anniversary of birth on 1st Dec 2066, when one wilol be 65 years and 1 day old. Same principle for any...

glenis

moving money online

why is it that if you pay a bill online the money is taken out of your account immeadiatley , but when a refund is due it takes 3-5 working days ?

rjcb23

can't sign in using IE7.0 (Beta)

Just to let you know that the page used to sign in does not display properly in ie7 (in Beta currently, will be launched in nr future)

jo90

Fed up with email rubbish

For several weeks I have ben bombarded with emails from investment companies trying to get me to check out various investments. God knows why this has suddenly stated but does anyone know how to stop...

sweetdor

shower curtain

ive just moved to a new house and it has a walk in shower.its white but at the bottom or half way down to the bottom of it where its been used alot has gone kinda grey like where over the time hasnt...