MoneyHelper, an independent body set up by the Government to provide free, impartial advice, provides further information about your retirement options which may assist in deciding which option is best for you. The MoneyHelper booklet ‘Your pension: your choices’ is available on their website; please click here to search for and download the booklet.
Guidance is also available from 'Pension Wise', a Government service which offers free and impartial guidance about the options. This guidance may be accessed on the internet at www.pensionwise.gov.uk, or by telephone on 0800 138 3944 (from outside the UK: +44 20 3733 3495). You can also book a face-to-face appointment with an adviser by calling this number. We recommend you take advantage of this offer of free and impartial guidance.
Before making any decision about your pension, we recommend you seek advice from a suitably qualified, regulated financial adviser. To make sure you are protected if things go wrong, you should always check the adviser you use is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). You can search for a suitably qualified FCA-registered adviser on MoneyHelper’s Retirement Adviser Directory at: moneyhelper.org.uk/retirement-adviser-directory