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Timeline for Retirement - Annuity or not?

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Jul 19, 2021 at 21:28 comment added keshlam Having just had to review this question earlier this year: Also, check the details of the annuity. My employer offered better payments if I turned my old pension funds into an annuity than anyone else would have if I had taken the cast and used that to buy an annuity myself. That difference was enough that the annuity seemed worth taking. Run the numbers. Your results may differ. Offer not good on days ending in "y".
Apr 29, 2015 at 20:31 comment added keshlam Interesting. Presumably there's some bit of accounting or tax rules which make it less advantageous elsewhere ...
Apr 29, 2015 at 20:28 comment added Ganesh Sittampalam I don't think charity annuities exist in the UK - I'd never heard of them before and had to google them, and all the results seem US specific.
Apr 29, 2015 at 12:05 history answered keshlam CC BY-SA 3.0