Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 17
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Government provided insufficient and misleading information with restrictive one-month deadline for AEAT pension decisions.
Conclusion
The AEAT case is one where government directly provided information intended to help pension scheme members decide what to do with their accrued pension benefits. Members were only given one month to make the decision, and consider that the information provided was insufficient and misleading.36 GAD acknowledged that in the present day, only giving people one month to make a financial decision of this kind would be judged to be inappropriate.37
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 24 September 2023. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗