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Aviva: Pension reviews

Name: Pension
Rating: 2.02 (175 reviews)

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1.97

Based on 175 reviews, last reviewed 17th Jul 2025

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4

Pension with Aviva for 15 years. Pretty Happy. Pension with Aviva for 15 years. Good website and easy to use apps for pension management. Good customer service though occasionally get passed from b... Read more Reviewed on: 17th July 2025

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1

Payment of single premium on the 10 March 2025 which... Payment of single premium on the 10 March 2025 which as at todays date 8 July has still not been allocated to my account. After a spurious requests fo... Read more Reviewed on: 8th July 2025

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Aviva offer a self-invested personal pension (SIPP).

There are five ways to invest in the Aviva SIPP. You can decide between the Universal Retirement Fund, a ready-made fund or choose an option from a fund shortlist provided by experts. You can also build your own portfolio or buy and sell shares and investments.

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Aviva Pension reviews (175)

shockingly bad customer service

Trying to take my pension as a lump sum found Aviva incredibly unhelpful. At best they were totally inefficient. Had to make numerous long phone calls just to get necessary forms. Frequently told forms would be sent but no forms received. Will not be dealing with Aviva again in any capacity Reviewed on: 16th November 2017

Stakeholder pension

Very happy with growth, investment choice and charges Reviewed on: 9th November 2017

Dire

Average wait on calls is over 30 minutes. Emails not answered .if you have your money with these clowns remove asap . Government should look into Aviva and fine them heavily for the current performance. Be warned Reviewed on: 9th October 2017

Pension

Had a query regarding my transfer value of my pension,the customer service team were very helpful Reviewed on: 27th July 2017

Great customer care

The best part of aviva is their customer service teams. They are on the ball and friendly and would go out of their way to help you sort out your money problems. Their products are fairly average, but I'm sticking right where I am simply because of the wonderful service I received. Reviewed on: 7th July 2017

Solid performance from established company

Solid above average performance from a well established company whose products I first took out in 1979. Great online portal and customer service. Reviewed on: 5th July 2017

Very good - almost excellent

Great product and the website has improved. Now much more user friendly than before. Reviewed on: 30th May 2017

AVIVA delayed payments - Ignorant not Excellent

I wish it were possible to have the option of 'ZERO' stars, because thats what I would give Aviva. Is anyone else aware that since Friday 5th May (4 days ago), they have had a system problem that prevents payments being made for some customers? I called, and they were supposed to ring me back on Saturday - they didn't. I called Monday, to hear that they had this problem, and supposedly still trying to resolve it. Have you ever heard anything as ludicrous? It does get worse, apparently if you wish to make a complaint, their complaints department have to call you back - IN 5 DAYS !!!!! So how best to handle a disgruntled customer - Aviva appear to think ignore them for 5 days. Hey Aviva - Ever heard of customer service. A good company is not one that doesn't have problems, it's one that resolves them with excellence, NOT ignorance. Reviewed on: 9th May 2017

Customer service non existent

I have decided to take my pension and naturally I have queries, it's almost impossible to get answers Reviewed on: 13th September 2016

Taking out pension pot - nightmare delays and more.....

Can this be true? - I understand that due to a high level of complaints from Aviva policy holders regarding delays in receiving their pension pots, the Alpha Pensions Claim Team have recently been replaced by circus trained chimps who are working for peanuts as per NUT union rates. This move by the management was inspired by an earlier television advertising campaign for a famous tea brand, showing chimps holding cups of tea in a group, sitting around a table and gibbering away, making them ideal candidates for call centre work with Aviva. An insider did remark that the Alpha Pensions Claim Team had now swung from a group of zombie seat warmers to a vastly over qualified hairy workforce, which has shocked many pension holders who have experienced an improvement in the service they received from Aviva - well done chimps!! Although distracted by their strange desire to type out the entire portfolio of William Shakespeare on their portable typewriters - circus training coming good for the little rescals - the chimps are slowly grasping the technique of answering an incoming call. They do this by launching themselves head first onto their computer keyboard which is positioned in a car tyre hanging from a light fitting, thereby generating a response from the I.T system. This letter is then printed off and posted to the policy holder using the slowest method of delivery possible, wedged in the mouth of an elderly, limping, short-sighted tortoise that has no sense of direction. Although this response is utterly unhelpful and total nonsense for the customer, the chimps are exceeding all expectations, something that the previous incumbents never did because their response to incoming calls were always utterly unhelpful, total nonsense AND repetitive dumbness. The downside so far observed by using chimps, is that although they are highly skilled at holding cups of tea in a group, sitting around a table and gibbering away, they do have the tendency to roll their poo into small balls and flick them across the room. These balls of poop (not to be confused with the bull sh*t thrown about by their zombie predecessors) does involve a great deal of expenditure on carpet and wall cleaner. In an attempt to improve their behaviour, various organ grinders have been contacted in order to try and reduce the airborne display of cr*p that is endemic within this pension claims team. It failed with the zombies and regretfully, it has failed with the chimps. However, with the Aviva brand so badly stained already - with black marks all round, with walls that look as though they have been pebbledashed by these poop balls - the management still remain positive that by dipping their recruitment toes into the animal gene pool, the battered reputation of Aviva pension claims will improve. End of 'Can this be true?' Now a more direct rant....."Alpha" = 'A' list.....those chair warming zombies that the chimps replaced would not even make the 'Z' list. In fact, there is not an alphabet yet devised on Earth or on any lifeless distant planet where they would be PROMOTED to be placed at the bottom of an alphabet. End of rant. Spleen vented - for now. Reviewed on: 29th August 2016

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