Policy paper

Pension scams: Government response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee report

This is a response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee report ‘Protecting pensions against scams: priorities for the Financial Guidance and Claims Bill’.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions and HM Treasury
• Published: 12 February 2018

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

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Government response to 'Protecting pensions against scams: priorities for the Financial Guidance and Claims Bill'

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This is the government response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s report Protecting pensions against scams: priorities for the Financial Guidance and Claims Bill (7 December 2017).

The government agrees with the committee about the need to:

• address the threat posed by pension scams by cutting off scamming activity at the source to disrupt criminals and protect savers
• ensure more people are able to make informed decisions about their personal finances and pension savings in particular

Published 12 February 2018