Sarah has a £10,000 pension pot and wants to move it into drawdown. She chooses to take 25% of it as tax free cash - giving her a tax free cash lump sum payment of £2,500. She moves the remaining £7,500 into drawdown. She's now used all of her tax free cash allowance...
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Even if it is a DC pension, if it is old it may not support the type of drawdown you want to do. You might need to transfer into a more modern style of pension - with the same provider if they offer such a product or a different provider if they don't - in order to do what...
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Then you start drawing down the pension. If you want to leave it to your children after death then you carry on in drawdown, but if you don’t you can get some security against outliving your savings by keeping an eye on annuity rates as you age, and switching to one when the annuit...