Tools and Resources | Aspire to Retire

Throughout this website we’ve linked out to a whole range of tools and resources* that can help you with your retirement planning. To make them easy to find we’ve collected them here.

*Where we link out to external industry websites, Foster Denovo Limited holds no responsibility for the accuracy of information on these sites.

Help and support
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Tools for planning and budgeting

Help and guidance with pensions and retirement

State Pensions

Help with finding regulated financial advice

Help with debt

Pension scams

Wills, power of attorneys and inheritance tax planning

1 | Tools for planning and budgeting

MoneyHelper pension calculator

MoneyHelper budget planner

Citizens Advice budgeting tool

2 | Help and guidance with pensions and retirement

MoneyHelper offers guidance about all kinds of pensions – workplace, personal and State.

MoneyHelper has lots of information about consumer finance, including pensions and retirement.

MoneyHelper provides guidance about the different ways to take retirement savings. If you’re aged over 50 you can book a free guidance call.

The Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA)’s Retirement Living Standards has a guide to how much retirement income you might need for different standards of living.

The Pension Tracing Service can help you find pensions you’ve had in previous jobs, but have lost track of.

3 | State Pensions

Browse State Pensions on the gov.uk website

Get a State Pension forecast

Check your State Pension age

Check your National Insurance record

4 | Help with finding regulated advice

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has a Find an adviser list you can search by postcode.

MoneyHelper has a directory of financial advisers who specialise in retirement advice.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulates financial advisers in the UK. It holds a register of financial advice firms.

Unbiased can provide contact details for professional advisers – including financial advisers – in your local area.

5 | Help with debt

StepChange Debt Charity has a free online debt advice service.

National Debtline has a free online advice tool, and the information on its website includes downloadable fact sheets.

Citizens Advice has a debt and money section on its website.

MoneyHelper website has a Taking control of debt section.

6 | Pension scams

Go to FCA Scamsmart website.

Download the FCA’s pension scams leaflet.

MoneyHelper guide to how to spot a Pension scam.

Action Fraud’s guide to pension scams.

7 | Wills, power of attorney and inheritance tax planning

Citizens Advice guide to wills.

Age UK’s guide to making a will.

Will Aid

Free Wills Month

National Free Wills Network

Gov.uk guide to lasting power of attorney

Register your power of attorney with the Office of the Public Guardian

MoneyHelper’s guide to inheritance tax

Throughout this website we’ve linked out to a whole range of tools and resources* that can help you with your retirement planning. To make them easy to find we’ve collected them here.

Help and support We’re with you all the way…

1 | Tools for planning and budgeting

2 | Help and guidance with pensions and retirement

3 | State Pensions

4 | Help with finding regulated advice

5 | Help with debt

6 | Pension scams

7 | Wills, power of attorney and inheritance tax planning

Help and support
We’re with you all the way…