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reverse the decision stopping pensioners accessing their annuities

Submitted on Saturday 22nd October 2016

Rejected on Wednesday 26th October 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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reverse the decision stopping pensioners accessing their annuities

Petition Details

George Osbourne as chancellor promised this would be made available.I have planned for my future on this promise. To have it taken away because of lobbying by the insurance industry is appalling, with around five million people affected. This was never debated in parliament.

Additional Information

George Osbournes thinking was that this money belonged to the individual saver who should have access to it, especially as most people had been sold bad annuity schemes.As recently as Dec 2015 ministers confirmed it would go ahead in April 2016. This money was after all our life savings


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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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