Consultation outcome

Bulk transfers of defined contribution pensions without member consent

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 20 December 2016
• Last updated: 26 October 2017 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

Following the public responses to this call for evidence, we’ve published a consultation on draft regulations – Bulk transfers of defined contribution pensions without member consent: draft regulations.

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Original consultation

Summary

A call for evidence on how the current provisions on defined contribution (DC) bulk transfers without member consent could be improved.

This consultation ran from
9:30am on 20 December 2016 to 11:45pm on 21 February 2017

Consultation description

We are interested in how we can simplify the current process for defined contribution (DC) to DC bulk transfers without consent, while ensuring members are adequately protected. We are particularly interested in:

• transfers from occupational schemes, including views on the role of the actuarial certificate and the relationship between the transferring and receiving schemes
• transfers from stakeholder pension schemes

Documents

Bulk transfers of defined contribution pensions without member consent: Call for evidence

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Published 20 December 2016
Last updated 26 October 2017 + show all updates

1. 26 October 2017

   Published the government response to this call for evidence.

2. 20 December 2016

   First published.