Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday Edition Today we have a question from Luke. Hi Louis, I listen to you often. Very informative and interesting episodes. My question is regarding super/pensions. I lived and worked in the U.K. for about 10 years - and still have a pension there. I also have Super here in Australia. I heard I could bring my U.K. pension back to Australia, then I heard they stopped it, and then I heard I still could. I was hoping you could clarify this for me. Great question! This was a big change to expats retirement planning a couple of years ago that seemed to go pretty unnoticed, so thanks for bringing the topic up. Created issues The issue with the UK Pension transfers to Australia occurred with changes to UK legislation back in 2015. This was due to the UK pensions prohibiting people from transferring their pension funds before they have reached the minimum UK pension age of 55, due to changes in accessibility laws between the two countries (i.e. the UK didn’t want people