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Tag Archives: AE
How payroll won friends and influenced Government
This is national payroll week so I’m blogging an article I wrote earlier in the summer for Reward Strategy Magazine. Since the end of the auto-enrolment staging period, I have had less day to day interaction with payroll people, … Continue reading
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“Your pay-rise is a pension rise”
I often “wake up to money” but not to this! In a discussion about when we last got a pay-rise, one listener mailed in that her boss told her “your pay-rise is a pension rise” It’s the first time … Continue reading
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Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged AE, pay rise, pension, pension rise, third world, Third world pension, USS
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Will “DC deficits” become a thing of the past?
News of HMRC’s “change of position” with regards the “net-pay- anomaly” is welcome, and long overdue. It came in the form of a letter sent in response to a request from respected journalist Jo Cumbo of the FT. Govt to … Continue reading
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Posted in advice gap, annuity, auto-enrolment, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged AE, auto enrolment, ft, jo cumbo, NEST, net-pay, pensions
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Play “Stick or twist” in the workplace pension lottery!
If you changed jobs, would you prefer to stick with your current workplace pension or join your new employer’s scheme (leaving a little pot behind you)? It’s a tough choice, and the more you think about it, the tougher … Continue reading
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Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged AE, Australia, auto-enrolement, Clearing, payoll, pension, pensions, stick, twist
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Auto-enrolment; a national exercise in trust.
I like to tease Jo Cumbo that she can trust no-one because of her heritage! This blatantly xenophobic comment is based on a British prejudice that Australians find compulsion acceptable as compliance is in the blood. A second prejudice, that … Continue reading
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Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged AE, auto enrolment, compliance, pensions, Technology, workplace
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“Making workplace pensions work” – the Pension Regulator’s new approach
I’ve been on the Pensions Regulator’s stakeholder panel a couple of years and this gets me a ticket to their Annual Conference. I haven’t bought the new vision in previous years, but yesterday’s event, held in County Hall, pushed the … Continue reading
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Posted in pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged AE, auto enrolment, FCA, Making workplace pensions work, pensions, TPR, Work
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AE – a day of reckoning to come?
More of us are saving, but we aren’t saving any more. The democratisation of pension saving – arising from auto-enrolment is a great thing – everyone can dare to dream of stopping work under their own power. But there is … Continue reading
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Posted in auto-enrolment, BSPS, Dashboard, pensions
Tagged AE, auto enrolment, Day of reckoning, DWP, workplace Pensions
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AE Pots must follow workers (Hargreaves Lansdown’s right)
I have just read a policy paper in my hand from Hargreaves Lansdown; “Putting Individuals at the Heart of the Pension System”. After some pretty dire submissions to the Work and Pensions Committee on CDC, I hadn’t thought to agree with … Continue reading
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Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged AE, BASDA, Bond, Hargreaves Lansdown, NEST, PAPDIS, Qtac, Sage, Star, workplace Pensions, Xero
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Why job – splitters can get shafted on pensions.
I was woken early in the morning to the sound of Robert Cochran, the familiar voice of Scottish Widows pensions team. Scottish Widows have done some research that £90m a year is being saved by employers/lost to employees as a result of … Continue reading
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Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged AE, auto enrolment, Learn payroll, Neil Esslmont, pensions, reward strategy, The Pensions Regulator
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Pensioning employee’s sleep ( with thanks to Kate Upcraft)
Not for the first time, I’m very grateful to Kate Upcraft for highlighting a pensions issue that impacts thousands of carers – but appears to be completely off the radar of most pension people. Kate is a freelance payroll consultant … Continue reading
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Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged Accountancy Age, AE, HMRC, ICAEW, Payroll, pensions, SCCS, sleep, Tax
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