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Expert spells out why state pension is so precious - you'd need £223k to buy it
While the new state pension only pays a maximum of £11,502 a year – and many on the basic state pension get much less – it would be hard to replicate this income from your own resources. A pensioner who use their combined pension pots to buy an annuity at …