{"id":126270,"date":"2025-09-09T23:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/126270\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:18:15","slug":"free-pension-guidance-sessions-offered-by-lovewell-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/126270\/","title":{"rendered":"Free pension guidance sessions offered by Lovewell Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Lovewell Blake Financial Planning is providing the consultations as part of Pension Awareness Week, which runs from September 15 to 19.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Stephen Metcalf, director at Lovewell Blake Financial Planning, said: \u201cThe full state pension is currently \u00a3230.25 a week, although this figure does depend on whether you have a full National Insurance record.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cEven those receiving the full state pension may find that they need extra pension savings to give themselves the retirement lifestyle they desire.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cMany people accumulate several different pension pots during their working lives, with different providers, and often they don\u2019t really understand the extent of their pension pot or what it will give them in retirement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt is never too early to start thinking about pensions, which is why we are offering these sessions during Pension Awareness Week to help people get to grips with their retirement futures.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The free sessions will cover a range of topics, including how much money is needed to retire and whether to buy an annuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lovewell Blake Financial Planning is providing the consultations as part of Pension Awareness Week, which runs from September&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-126270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}