Introduction Summary
1.This section amends Finance Act 2004 to increase to £30,000 (up from £18,000) the maximum total pension savings that individuals can have before they are no longer permitted to receive lump sums from their registered pension schemes under trivial commutation rules. It also increases the amount that can be paid as a small lump sum irrespective of an individual’s total pension savings to £10,000 (up from £2,000). It also amends secondary legislation to increase from two to three the number of small lump sums that an individual can receive from pension schemes that are not occupational or public service pension schemes.