Don't ask us . . .
ARE YOU worried about your occupation- al pension? Then kindly don't bother the Occupational Pensions Board. Its time is too frequently wasted in this way. A note of exasperation is struck in its premonitory leaflet, called 'The OPB: what it is, what it does' and devoting a full page to what it doesn't. This is headed Inapproriate refer- ences to the Board.' Seven of them, so it seems, keep cropping up. Do you want advice about your pension scheme's rules? Don't ask us — try the scheme's administra- tor, or, failing that, the Occupational Pen- sions Advisory Service. Advice about alterna- tive pension plans? Try an independent financial adviser. Complaints about your scheme's administrator? Try OPAS or the Pensions Ombudsman. Advice about the value of your pension? The administrator, with ()PAS as a fall-back. Unhappy about what the trustees are doing with the surplus in your pension fund? Consult a lawyer. A query on tax? Ask the tax man. Advice about transfer values — 'either the amount, or delay in the calculation and receipt'? The administrator, once again, or OPAS, but not us, please. We have work to do.
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