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''Consumer protection - UK''.  
''Consumer protection - UK''.  


The Single Financial Guidance Body created a single organisation from three existing providers of government-sponsored financial guidance:
 
The Single Financial Guidance Body was the temporary name given from January-April 2019, to a single organisation formed from three separate providers of UK government-sponsored financial guidance:


*The Money Advice Service
*The Money Advice Service
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*Pension Wise
*Pension Wise


bringing together for the first time the provision of debt advice, money guidance and pensions guidance, with effect from January 2019.
The body brought together the provision of debt advice, money guidance and pensions guidance.
 


The SFGB is funded by levies on both the financial services industry and pension schemes.


The SFGB is sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions, but also engages with HM Treasury, which is responsible for policy on financial capability and debt advice.
Renamed the Money and Pensions Service.




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* [[Department for Work and Pensions]]
* [[Department for Work and Pensions]]
* [[HM Treasury]]
* [[HM Treasury]]
* [[Money and Pensions Service]]
* [[Occupational pension scheme]]
* [[Occupational pension scheme]]
* [[The Pensions Advisory Service]]
* [[The Pensions Advisory Service]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]

Latest revision as of 15:07, 5 June 2019

(SFGB).

Consumer protection - UK.


The Single Financial Guidance Body was the temporary name given from January-April 2019, to a single organisation formed from three separate providers of UK government-sponsored financial guidance:

  • The Money Advice Service
  • The Pensions Advisory Service and
  • Pension Wise

The body brought together the provision of debt advice, money guidance and pensions guidance.


Renamed the Money and Pensions Service.


See also