Category Archives: Payroll
Payroll follows member!
There is an unholy row going on between the NAPF on one side and the DWP and the ABI on the other centering on whether the average Joe wants the pension “pot” from his former employer to follow him to his new … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Payroll, pensions
Tagged DWP, Employment, NAPF, National Employment Savings Trust, Payroll, pension, Steve Webb, Webb
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What do we mean by good?
Spending time in Liverpool this week has given me the chance of spending time with clients, fellow advisers and those who market the products our clients use. The NAPF Conference is a time when you can look at what you are doing , compare … Continue reading
Tesco v Morrisons – a pension-enrolment showdown
The Government officials charged with monitoring the success of auto-enrolment will no doubt be watching with interest the reported numbers enrolling into the Morrison’s and Tesco’s pension arrangements. Both organisations have opted to provide their “eligible jobholders” with defined benefit pensions; the … Continue reading
Can pension saving really grow the economy?
Putting a stealth tax on an employer’s wage bill of 3% and frog-boiling millions to reduce their take home by up to 4% doesn’t fit comfortably with a growth strategy for the economy. Less money to spend. Many regard UK pension policy … Continue reading
Ten reasons to join the Pension Play Pen!
I’m excited! Driving through Berkshire and Hampshire to work it showed 8 degrees on the dashboard, I drove open-top and imagined I was Jane Austen in a pony and trap (the pony called Frankel)! I’m excited because there are 2499 members … Continue reading
Posted in Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, poetry, The Racket of the Lambs
Tagged Berkshire, Bristol, Edinburgh, Hampshire, Jane Austen, London, Pen, pension, Racket, White Hart
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Do self-employed “workers” know their pension rights?
The self-employed have been marginal to Pension Reform. An obscure section of the 2008 Pension Act makes it possible for them to take part in NEST, however NEST do not advertise they can receive self-employed contributions and I’d be surprised if they have … Continue reading
TESCO extra pensions
I’ve followed Tesco’s progress towards the staging of auto-enrolment closely this week. I think we are at a tipping point in pension provision in Britain, a point which could see the return of pensions that do what they say on … Continue reading
What’s a social media champion?
The news is that I’m up for an award as a social media champ – or or perhaps “chump”. I’d be beating a food bunch if I won;- the Pensions Monkey Tom Mcphail, Mallowstreet, the dynamic golfing legend Gurjit Dehl and Madamoiselle Bighair – Ros Altmann. All … Continue reading
Payroll folk and Pensions should be friends
Well ok, it’s not as glam as the farmer and the cowboy in Oklahoma, but there’s that same edge between payroll and pension people . This blog’s about how we’re getting it together- thanks to some lucky chancs- some serendipity! Serendipity … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, dc pensions, Payroll
Tagged Ceridian, KPMG, Logica, Magna Carta, Oklahoma, Payroll, pension, Steve Webb
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