{"id":324,"date":"2020-08-27T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/?p=324"},"modified":"2020-09-09T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T11:10:36","slug":"over-30-million-lost-through-pension-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/over-30-million-lost-through-pension-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Over \u00a330 million lost through pension scams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pension savers are being warned to watch out for scams as over \u00a330 million has been lost to pension scammers in just three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information released by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and The Pension Regulator (TPR) reveals that a total of \u00a330,857,329 has been lost to pension scammers since 2017.  The full article can be read online at <a href=\"https:\/\/moneyfacts.co.uk\/news\/retirement\/over-30-million-lost-through-pension-scams\/#\">www.moneyfacts.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, the Pensions Transfer Gold Standard was launched.  This is a voluntary code of good practice for safeguarded and defined benefit pension transfer advice, based around a set of nine principles.  Full details at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepfs.org\/about-us\/initiatives\/the-pension-transfer-gold-standard\/\">https:\/\/www.thepfs.org\/about-us\/initiatives\/the-pension-transfer-gold-standard\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firms are required to adopt and promote the principles so consumers can better understand and find good advice, and be confident they are dealing with a firm that goes beyond the minimum requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamnett Wealth Management have adopted the Pension Transfer Gold Standard.  For more information, please visit  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/retirement.html\">https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/retirement.html<\/a>  or call us on 0114 235 3500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pension savers are being warned to watch out for scams as over \u00a330 million has been lost to pension scammers in just three years. Information released by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and The Pension Regulator (TPR) reveals that a total of \u00a330,857,329 has been lost to pension scammers since 2017. The full article can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/over-30-million-lost-through-pension-scams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Over \u00a330 million lost through pension scams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamnettwealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}