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tPR’s Plain English Guide to Auto-Enrolment – the best explanation for business advisors – ever!
The Pension Regulator’s guide to auto-enrolment is a must read. If you haven’t read it, you can read it here. The Plain English guide to automatic enrolment Information for business advisers November 2015 Since automatic enrolment began in 2012, … Continue reading
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Tagged automatic enrolment, pensions, The Pensions Regulator, workplace Pensions
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Half-term report for AE – an excellent start – keep it up!
The press is not full of the NAO’s report on auto-enrolment, why should it be? There is no story other than the good news that auto-enrolment is working as predicted by the DWP. Why the document is important is … Continue reading
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Tagged AE, auto enrolment, DWP, DWP National Audit Office, National Audit Office, NEST, Report, Retirement, The Pensions Regulator
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Thus speaks the Regulator – and TPAS too!
Some help is at hand for Britain’s SMEs and their business advisers, but there needs to be signposting to specialist advisers that can apply tPR’s guidance and offer a “definitive course of action”. The Pension Regulator has published some … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, auto-enrolment-net pay, DWP, Guidance, Pension Advisory Service, Pension Regulator, PR, relief at source, The Pensions Regulator, TPAS
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Helpless? – and scammers in town!
One of the worst things about doing my job is seeing people being fleeced without being able to do anything about it. I know that Katie Morley feels the same way – I can feel it when she’s writing about … Continue reading
Simplifying AE – why the workforce assessment IS worth it
The Government is calling for ideas to simplify auto-enrolment. I had an interesting discussion with a senior payroll policy lobbyist yesterday. She argues that the “workforce assessment” is too problematic to become part of the normal payroll function of Britain’s … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, baby, bathwater, BPT, DWP, HMRC, micro-micro, Micros, pensions, simplification, SME, The Pensions Regulator, TPR, workforce assessment
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Beware “black-box” auto-enrolment “solutions”.
Katie Morley of the de Daily Telegraph has written an important article claiming that the occupational schemes set up to relieve the needy of their pension savings before retirement are now turning their sights on auto-enrolment. This may or may not … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, black-box, Business, choice, due diligence, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Katie Morley, MAF, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, payroll bureau, pensions, Research, Retirement, the Daily Telegraph, The Pensions Regulator, workplace pension schemes, workplace Pensions
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NEST – an explanation please!
Yesterday I jokingly referred to the Pension Regulator as the Pension Troublemaker. Its announcement yesterday of a “Directory” of two spells trouble for master trusts who are not on their way to getting the Master Trust Assurance Framework (RRP £15-100K … Continue reading
The Regulator makes it easier for micro-employers to auto-enrol
Charles Counsell spoke at the Regulator’s provider conference on Tuesday (30th June). These are my notes of what he said and there may be some minor inconsistencies. I hope to post a slide-share link to his slides when they are … Continue reading
Auto-enrolment; – tPR’s despatches from the trenches
Auto-enrolment is like Flanders in 1914. Those wishing to see universal adoption of workplace pensions within Britain’s employment structure are digging in for an onslaught that has barely begun. Our Ypres’ and Passchendaeles’ are yet to come. We are still in … Continue reading
One million employers buying pensions in the dark.
I am comfortable with the interventions by Government in the sales side of workplace pensions. The DWP’s minimum standards legislation is progressing well and we look forward to seeing some secondary legislation in September. The Treasury’s work transforming the choices … Continue reading
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