Category Archives: Payroll
If payroll can integrate to our pensions, why can’t we?
Cast your mind back to the back end of 2012 when the big retailers and banks were staging auto-enrollment. The big employers were spending hundreds of thousands of pounds re-coding their payroll software or were ransoming themselves to “middle ware” … Continue reading
Posted in age wage, Payroll, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Sage
Tagged aeclypse, Dashboard, integration, Payroll, pensionsync
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CDC gets HMRC approval
BREAKING: Collective DC pension schemes will be given legal standing from April 2021, under measures outlined by the Treasury today. https://t.co/n6GAhAMWrA pic.twitter.com/G7NAchYgCr — Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) July 21, 2020 CDC is CDC (but also CMP) In another step forward, … Continue reading
Posted in CDC, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions
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A CIPP initiative on workplace pensions
The times call for a fresh and innovative approach to help staff facing an uncertain future. The prospect of reduced work prospects faces many of us, especially furloughed staff. This article looks at an initiative taken by the CIPP to … Continue reading
Wishing the Payroll Bureau Association well!
In March 2020, a group of 14 UK payroll bureau managers came together with two things in common; a passion for their sector and a desire to change the support structure in which they operated. After many phone calls, virtual … Continue reading
“If we should live that long…”
I write a column for the CIPP magazine and there’s generally a six week cycle between submission and publication. I submitted this article in March and it got published last week. When I wrote it, I wondered how I’d be … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, Payroll, pensions
Tagged CIPP, Covid-19, Payroll, pensions
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Payroll into battle!
April 20th 2020 will live long in the memories of payroll. The Furlough has begun! Here is Barry Matthews – payroll enthusiast and BDD of PayCircle and his call to arms! Monday morning 20th April 2020, payroll teams across … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, leadership, Payroll, pensions, risk
Tagged #payrollbureaus, #youcandothis, auto enrolment, Furlough, Payroll, payrollservices, pensions, reward
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Holding the thin blue line on pensions
1. The immediate threat of fraud The policing of pensions is a precarious business and the “thin blue line” is figurative. The police are reluctant , for good reason, to busy themselves in the complexities of criminal maladministration , prosecutions … Continue reading
Posted in age wage, Payroll, pensions
Tagged administration, Payroll, Pension Bee, pensions, scams
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“State of the Pension” address
After doing a 30 minute address to to CIPP in 10 minutes, I’ve been called back to do another one – only this time I’m first on – which means I could gab on for ages and make sure no … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, Martin Lewis, Payroll, pensions
Tagged CIPP, Investment, Payroll, pensions, Tax, Technology
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