Entering early July and I know that people will be anxious to hear news of Global Pension Plan as in an earlier statement they said that purchase of policies would close on 30th June.

Unfortunately when you look for their website all you're faced with is the equivalent of a blank page. The less trusting amongst us would take this as a bad sign where others may not be so quick to rush to a decision.

We should allow a few more days to pass to see whether the admin is able to send out an update of where things are and what the next steps will be.

A couple of months ago there was some talk of debit cards being issued to clients and one commentator had received a fax of a card from one of his subscribers so it did look as though this was genuine.

As it transpires this may have been a false dawn as the Global Pension Plan admin denied any cards being sent out and whilst this may have been to safeguard security the more likely answer is that people receiving debits cards are getting them from another programme that they may have forgotten about.

So, we wait and hope. Giving a little time for further news won't hurt and the outcome could be to all our benefits.