Experts from across the pensions industry have attacked the delay as creating uncertainty in the minds of small employers as to whether the policy will ever affect them.Providers’ business models, particularly Nest’s,...
The call comes the day after the Government announced a delay in the onset of auto-enrolment duties for employers with less than 50 staff, whose staging dates will now start from May...
Businesses with less than 50 employees will now hit their staging dates from May 2015, instead of the current timing of April 2014. The postponement puts auto-enrolment for these firms back beyond...
The DWP says it will make an announcement this afternoon about changes to the timetable for auto-enrolment, but says reports in the Sunday Telegraph that firms with less than 50 employees will...
The report, written by David Frost, former director general, British Chamber of Commerce and Dame Carol Black, National Director for Health and Work, estimates that providing tax relief for basic rate taxpayers...
Research carried out by Hargreaves Lansdown shows consultation papers running between October 2010 and October 2011 introduce ongoing costs ranging between £1,117,661,400 and £1,428,683,200a year.One off costs from the 18 consultations active...
An automatic transfer system that moves employees’ assets with them is one of the options that will be considered in a consultation on small pots to be launched by the DWP later...
Independent research commissioned by Aviva shows that 83 per cent of corporate financial advisers are either ’fairly’ or ’very confident’ that they are ready to support employers through auto-enrolment in the coming...
Called ‘The People’s Pension’, the offering will include a bespoke online management tool to assist employers in meeting their regulatory obligations, with a UK based call centre and dedicated account managers and...
With less than 12 months to go until auto-enrolment gets under way, the knock-on effects of the policy initiative on other benefits was at the forefront of the mind of delegates at...
