The National Treasury has made major concessions to trade unions and the retirement industry on its proposed two-pot retirement system by granting workers immediate access to some of their accumulated savings and extending the implementation date by a year.

The Treasury has proposed that the new system will now take effect from March 1 2024, but the retirement industry represented by the Association for Savings and Investment SA (Asisa) remains sceptical that the new date is feasible...

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