For survivors who might be eligible for additional benefits or payments from their deceased partner's contributions, it is ...

Children of the deceased can benefit, too. Here, Telegraph Money explains what happens to someone’s pension when they die, ...

The good news is that spouses and civil partners will still be able to inherit assets from one another without paying IHT and this includes pensions. It is only when pensions are left to beneficiaries ...

You’ve worked hard to build up your pension pot. So you’ll probably want to know what will happen to it when you die. This depends on the type of pension you have and the options you’ve chosen. So, it ...

The downside is that if your spouse happens to die first, your pension payments remain reduced, they don’t go back up. The joint and survivor option typically comes with a larger reduction in ...

Andrew Marr, of Forbes Dawson, said: “Most people do not know when they will die and so may not be able to empty their pension scheme ‘perfectly’. However, many of the pensioners that this ...