Commentary on Sections Retirement planning Section 234: Promoting and facilitating financial planning for retirement
851.Subsections (1) and (2) enable the Secretary of State and the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland to take action for the purpose of promoting or facilitating financial planning for retirement. The action can include providing facilities to enable people to:
	estimate the financial resources they are likely to need after retirement;
	estimate the financial resources that are likely to be available to them after retirement (from both pensions and other sources);
	ascertain what action might be taken to increase financial resources available to them after retirement.
852.Subsection 3 provides that the section does not authorise the Secretary of State or the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland to take action that section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 would otherwise prohibit them from taking.