Are your pension re-enrolment duties coming up soon? More than 1,200,00 employers have now successfully met their automatic enrolment duties and put nearly 10,000,000 staff into a workplace pension. However, automatic enrolment has ongoing tasks that must be completed to ensure employers continue to comply with the law, and staff continue to receive the pensions […] Read more »
Increases in minimum contributions for automatic enrolment pensions
Under automatic enrolment, minimum pension contributions are required to increase over time. With effect from 6th April 2018 the total contribution increases from the current minimum of a total contribution of 2% of qualifying earnings, to a total of 5%, and again on 6th April 2019, increasing to a total minimum of 8%. The employer […] Read more »
New Employers and automatic enrolment
Taking on staff is an essential part of growing a business and there are several things to consider, including automatic enrolment. Aside from checking whether you need to register as an employer with HMRC; checking if your employee has the legal right to work in the UK and taking out employer’s liability insurance, you will […] Read more »
New auto-enrolment guidance and re-enrolment guidance
Hundreds of thousands of small employers will need to meet their pension duties in 2017 and so The Pensions Regulator has refreshed and updated their website with new auto-enrolment guidance and re-enrolment guidance to make it simpler for employers to understand their duties. They have made choosing a pension scheme for staff easier with the […] Read more »
Tracing your Pension: Is it Lost?
Tracing your pension is not always easy, especially if you’ve been in more than one scheme or have changed employer throughout your career. But it’s important that you do claim your pension, so the sooner you trace a lost pension, the better. Many people are concerned about lost pensions. Fortunately, there are several ways you […] Read more »
Workplace Pension Guidance
Many small employers have still to arrange their workplace pension schemes and register their scheme with The Pension Regulator, so here is some further guidance. The Pensions Regulator send letters to all employers 12 months, 6 months and one month before their staging date, informing you of your duties. The Pensions Regulator website has an […] Read more »
Declaration of Compliance
Auto enrolment has meant more employers have now reached their staging date and thousands more will be staging in the next year. You may have chosen your pension provider, enrolled your employees and started to make the payments. This will now be an ongoing administrative process. However, your auto enrolment duties do not end there. […] Read more »
Automatic Enrolment: Are you ready?
We have talked about this before, but it certainly bears repeating. Up to half a million small and micro employers will reach their staging date in the next 12 months and many will not be ready in time and could risk fines. The Pensions Regulator has written to every employer alerting them to when their […] Read more »
Auto Enrolment: What if no staff are eligible?
Many small employers may have employees that are not eligible for automatic enrolment and therefore assume that they do not need to set up a pension. Whilst there is no need to set up a pension if you have staff that are not eligible because they are too young or do not earn enough, those […] Read more »