What You Need to Know About Pensions

This free session is aimed at money guidance practitioners across the UK. If you work in the third or public sector and have conversations about money, our free events are aimed at you!

The Money Guiders Scotland Network are pleased to be hosting this event - What You Need to Know About Pensions - which will be delivered by a technical specialist from MoneyHelper. This session is ideal for anyone who has conversations with service users or customers about pensions and/or preparing for their financial future. By attending this session, you will gain the knowledge and confidence to explain key concepts about pensions to others and you will know where to signpost people for further help.

The session will focus on a range of different pension topics, such as:

• Planning and budgeting for retirement – how much money will you need?
• Knowing what to expect from your State Pension and how you build your State Pension entitlement
• The types of personal and workplace pensions
• The basics of Automatic Enrolment
• Options for accessing pensions
• Tracing old pensions
• Scams
• Helpful tools and next steps

There will also be a Q & A with the MoneyHelper team! For more information about how MoneyHelper can help, please visit https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en

New and existing members of the Scotland Network and wider Money Guiders programme are welcome to join.

Join the Money Guiders Scotland Network and become part of a national community of practice, with priority notice of learning events and workshops, regular newsletters and networking opportunities by registering via the Money and Pensions Service registration form here.

The Network is delivered by Money Advice Scotland on behalf of the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS).

Learn more about Money Guiders

Money Guiders is a programme run by The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), which seeks to help money guidance practitioners improve their knowledge, skills and confidence. Everything that the Money Guiders programme offers centres around the Money Guidance Competency Framework - it's there to help you better understand the full breadth and depth of money related issues that fall outside of the regulated financial advice service sector - the things you talk to your customers about.

The Money Guiders Scotland Network is part of this programme and offers free networking and learning events (online and in-person) as well as an online community space, aimed at helping you build skills, knowledge and confidence in delivering money guidance. Staff and volunteers delivering any level of money guidance are welcome here.

How confident do you feel providing money guidance? Use the confidence checker to review your skills and knowledge and get some pointers on areas to focus on to help build your money guidance confidence.