PFS: Guidance body should deliver financial health check

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Every working adult in the UK would be offered a voucher for a financial health check session with a professional financial adviser, under a proposal developed by the Personal Finance Society.

The Society has today written to the relevant Ministers including the Economic Secretary to the Treasury and the Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, calling for the Government to work with the Society to take the initiative forward. A financial health check session could be offered to consumers at a time in their working lives when they are best placed to develop a long-term course of action for achieving their financial and life goals. Participating advisers could deduct a proportion of the cost of each session from their next FCA levy, based on a rate per redeemed voucher submit...

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