George Osborne to give pensioners more freedom to choose.
George Osborne gave a hint of what can be expected in this weeks budget on the Andrew Marr show yesterday , he is looking to extend the number of pensioners benefiting from the relaxed pension rules announced earlier this year, from April 6 this year people will be able to cash in their pension savings when they retire rather than purchase an annuity, the Chancellor is expected to extend those same freedoms to the five million pensioners who already have annuities from April 2016, these planned annuity reforms will be worth more than £10billion.
Removing the restrictions on buying and selling existing annuities will allow pensioners to sell the income they receive from their policy without unwinding the original contract they will be free to either take the cash as a lump sum or place it into drawdown to use the proceeds more gradually”.
George Osborne gives the last budget of this parliament this wednesday, if the expected pension annuity changes are realized we should see a new wave of Buy-to-Let clients entering the property market, these clients will be pensioners looking to secure their future income by owning property and letting it out.