Policy News Journal - 2017-18

Pensions Regulator begins spot checking Manchester employers...................................................................390 Automatic Enrolment reaches half a million employers but many more still to sign up .....................................390 Automatic enrolment spot checks on Birmingham employers ..........................................................................391 Free automatic enrolment webinar for business advisers.................................................................................391 Are you expected to submit a Declaration of Compliance on behalf of clients?................................................391 A third of small businesses do not know what automatic enrolment is .............................................................392 TPR warns employers not to fall for exemption certificate scam ......................................................................392 Employers confident of automatic enrolment compliance.................................................................................393 Automatic enrolment: Business adviser website survey ...................................................................................394 Automatic enrolment: Twitter Q&A for business advisers .................................................................................395 NEST is signing up around 1,000 employers a day..........................................................................................395 Rainy day savings via automatic enrolment......................................................................................................395 Automatic enrolment: DB quality requirement and provisions for seafarers and offshore workers ...................396 Auto enrolment - NOW: Pensions removed from the master trust assurance list .............................................397 The Pensions Regulator begins spot checks in Edinburgh...............................................................................397 Automatic enrolment: Business adviser website survey ...................................................................................398 Automatic enrolment: Twitter Q&A for business advisers .................................................................................398 TPR quarterly compliance and enforcement bulletin ........................................................................................399 TPR remind employers – employees have to be enrolled before they can then opt-out...................................400 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) - Call for Evidence closes on 30 August.......................................400 Automatic enrolment and ongoing duties .........................................................................................................401 Have you used the transitional period for DB schemes for auto enrolment? ....................................................402 TPR carries out spot checks on South Wales employers .................................................................................403 Automatic enrolment continues to shape the savings landscape .....................................................................403 Bus firm and director prosecuted for failing to give staff workplace pensions...................................................403 Automatic enrolment - new and ongoing duties................................................................................................404 Template letters for employers to explain auto enrolment increases to staff ....................................................405 Automatic enrolment review is considering removing the lower age limit .........................................................406 ‘Get to know your pension’ ‘Get to know your responsibilties’ ..........................................................................407 What if your new employer client misses their auto enrolment duties start date?.............................................407 Automatic enrolment - first wilful non-compliance conviction............................................................................407 Automatic enrolment: Are your clients thinking of employing temporary or seasonal staff? .............................408 Automatic enrolment: quarterly Compliance & Enforcement bulletin ................................................................408 NEST consults on changes to scheme rules ....................................................................................................409 0.75% charge cap to remain on auto enrolment pension schemes ..................................................................410 Pre-Christmas automatic enrolment spot checks .............................................................................................410 31% of employees feel their employer is responsible for their workplace pension ...........................................410 Automatic enrolment– what your clients need to know.....................................................................................411 Automatic enrolment and the law .....................................................................................................................412 Business advisers continue to be crucial to the success of automatic enrolment.............................................413 Don’t earn an unwanted present this year ........................................................................................................413 TPR to prosecute healthcare company for trying to avoid giving its staff workplace pensions .........................414 Automatic enrolment: Extension to under 22 year olds and lower earnings limit removal ................................414 Proposed earnings trigger and qualifying earnings bands 2018-19..................................................................415 The Pensions Regulator - January update .......................................................................................................416 Chappell found guilty of failing to give information to TPR about the sale of BHS............................................416 TPR Auto enrolment events for business advisers ...........................................................................................416 Free automatic enrolment events for business advisers...................................................................................417 Over 9 million jobholders enrolled into pension schemes .................................................................................418 Pensions Regulator begins spot checks on East Midlands employers .............................................................418 Bus company and boss left with bill of more than £60k for deliberately failing to give their staff workplace pensions ...........................................................................................................................................................419 NEST opt-outs lowest among youngest pension savers, at 4% .......................................................................419 TPR begins carrying out spot checks on employers across Northern Ireland...................................................419 Changes to Government Gateway for Declaration of Compliance ...................................................................420 Increases in automatic enrolment pension contributions ..................................................................................420 Healthcare company admits providing false information about staff workplace pensions ................................421 General Pensions News......................................................................................................................................422 New public body offering debt advice, money and pensions guidance.............................................................422 Review of the State Pension age......................................................................................................................422 Consultation on pension scams........................................................................................................................423 Tax-free Pension Advice Allowance .................................................................................................................423 Consultation on security and sustainability of defined benefit pensions ...........................................................424 Pensions Dashboard prototype delivers on its promises ..................................................................................425 Pension Tax for overseas pensions - additional information.............................................................................425 Pension schemes newsletter 86 .......................................................................................................................426 The draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 .........................426

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