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Your PAYE reference - found on letters you have received from TPR about automatic enrolment. Your letter code - a 10 digit reference that appears on all correspondence from TPR about automatic enrolment. Your current staging date and your new staging date. Employer’s name, address (including postcode) and email address. If you have one, your Companies House registration number or equivalent, eg registered charity number, VAT registration number or industrial and provident society number. Complete your declaration of compliance at the same time You can choose to complete your declaration of compliance at the same time as you bring your staging date forward. Completing your declaration early means you can get this task out of the way and don’t need to think about it anymore. If you decide not to do this, you must complete your declaration within five months after your new staging date.
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Automatic enrolment declaration of compliance 22 June 2016
If you are completing a declaration of compliance for a client, find out what information you need to provide to The Pensions Regulator and when you need to do it.
Your client must provide information to TPR to show how they have met their automatic enrolment duties. This means completing a declaration of compliance within five months of your client’s staging date. If this is not submitted in time, then they could be fined. It is a legal duty to complete the declaration of compliance correctly and on time. If you’re having difficulties with the automatic enrolment process or with gathering the right information to complete a declaration of compliance by the specified deadline, contact TPR without delay for assistance.
TPR’s website has a useful page of automatic enrolment declaration questions .
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Bring your client’s staging date forward 23 June 2016
The government has added flexibility to make it easier for employers who do not have staff that they must put into a pension scheme to bring forward their staging date without the need to have a pension scheme ready.
If you have clients who want to bring their staging date forward The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has made a change to help simplify the process. The requirement for employers to give TPR a month’s notice if they want to bring forward their staging date has now been removed. They will still need to let TPR know they’re doing it, but it can now be at any point on or before their new staging date.
It is worth noting though, that employers who do have staff to automatically enrol need to agree the new date with the pension provider first, and the staging date will still need to be the first of the month.
However, employers without anyone to automatically enrol can now bring forward their staging date to any date they choose. They can also declare their compliance at the same time, so their duties are completed.
These employers no longer have to set up a pension scheme – unless a worker asks to join one, or if they subsequently have staff to automatically enrol.
Find out more about bringing your client’s staging date forward .
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