Everyone has the right to shop around at retirement for a better annuity income for the rest of their life. This is known as the Open Market Option and currently only 40% of people coming into retirement exercise their right to shop around and consider moving from their pension company to a new provider for their annuity.

Just Retirement is committed to helping more people understand what is involved in shopping around and to help bring better levels of retirement income to more and more people in the UK.

The Mail on Sunday is currently running a major campaign highlighting the issues, the article below illustrates the benefits of shopping around and taking your health into consideration when buying your annuity.

A full pdf of the article can be downloaded here.