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TPR finds half million more small employers

by Corporate Adviser
July 23, 2015
Charles Counsell 700 x 450
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The new figures, published today in The Pensions Regulator’s third annual auto-enrolment commentary and analysis show that a total of around 1.8 million small and micro employers will need to meet their pensions duties over the next three years, compared to the previous estimate of 1.3 million.

The estimates shows the summer of 2017 will see a peak of around 350,000 small and micro employers whose automatic enrolment duties will come into effect – compared to earlier predictions of a peak of around 220,000 in mid-2016.

The report illustrates changes and trends in the pension landscape and that saving for a pension is becoming the norm thanks to automatic enrolment. It shows that most employers are now choosing to use DC pension schemes with a relatively even split between trust-based schemes and contract-based schemes.

The analysis shows that by the end of March 2015, a total of 5.2 million eligible job holders were automatically enrolled. Around 35,000 employers had completed their declaration of compliance between April 2014 and March 2015. It shows 68 per cent of small and 64 per cent of micro employers respectively plan to seek help with automatic enrolment from a business adviser with accountants and IFAs likely to be the most commonly used.

98 per cent of small employers and 94 per cent of micro employers surveyed two to four months before reaching their staging date understood their automatic enrolment duties.

From July 2012 to March 2015 around 52 per cent of employers used postponement, while in the year to the end of March 2015 TPR used its formal powers on 2,169 occasions. These included 1,682 compliance notices, 424 fixed penalty notices and 5 escalating penalty notices.

TPR executive director of automatic enrolment Charles Counsell says: “Automatic enrolment has had a dramatic impact on the number of people saving for retirement in the UK – but the new analysis we’ve published today demonstrates that significant challenges still lie ahead. As a result of more new employers starting up and fewer going out of business, the pensions sector will need to plan for larger numbers reaching the start of their duties. Thanks to automatic enrolment, saving for retirement is becoming the norm and we know most employers want to do the right thing by their staff.”

 

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