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  1. Your pension plan should be with a financially strong organisation so that you can rest assured that it is safe & properly managed.
  2. Avoid any pension plans that have high set up costs or exit penalties if you decide to transfer your pension fund elsewhere or retire early.
  3. Make sure that you choose a pension plan with low management charges so that your contributions can work hard for you.
  4. You may need to access monies ahead of your anticipated retirement age. An Individual Savings Account (ISA) maybe more suitable for you.
  5. Find out if your employer (if you have one) has a pension plan to which they will contribute
  6. Before you start planning for retirement, make sure that you have a good plan to repay any debt that you have.
  7. Investors with no income can still contribute up to £3,600 gross each year into a pension and receive basic rate income tax relief.
  8. From 6th April 2010 the minimum age at which you can access pension benefits goes up to age 55.
  9. Use Pensions and ISAs to create a total retirement fund,with the right balance of tax breaks (but access restrictions) & easy access.
  10. Pensions and ISAs are two very different tax-wrappers used for retirement planning, but they do share some similarities.
  11. Your chosen pension plan should allow you to access valuations online any time, and one that offers a wide choice of investment funds.
  12. Pensions remain an important retirement planning tool offering valuable tax relief & a tax efficient environment where your money can grow
  13. The Pensions Act brings massive new responsibilities for Employers to introduce compulsory pensions by 2012 increasing costs significantly
  14. Employers who don't have a pension scheme, or don't have schemes covering all of their workforce, need to introduce provision by 2012
  15. From 2012, employers will need to automatically enrol most staff in a pension scheme & pay a contribution of 3% for those who remain members
  16. Worryingly, nearly a quarter of people believe they will still have debts to pay off when they are pensioners seperate to a mortgage say AXA
  17. The majority of Britons are expecting to rely on state pension in their retirement, 64 per cent say they will use it to support them
  18. Britain sits at bottom of the G7 class when it comes to state pension provision, according to research by Axa.
  19. Nearly half of Scottish households have no savings or investments, according to a report from Aegon Scottish Equitable.
  20. "We risk heading past the point of no return for many people in this country who may be left living on the very minimum in retirement." AXA