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Automatic enrolment and ongoing duties 24 August 2017
An employer’s workplace pension duties do not stop with declaring their compliance. With The Pensions Regulator conducting spot checks on employers across the country, it’s important you are aware what you need to do on a regular and ongoing basis to ensure you comply with the law. The Pensions Regulator is the font of all knowledge when it comes to automatic enrolment and is consistently providing material to keep employers / agents / advisors etc informed and often reminded of the ongoing duties. A recent publication tells us just that: What employers need to know Every employer has automatic enrolment duties. They need to assess their staff, put them into a workplace pension scheme if they meet certain criteria, write to them to tell them what they’ve done, and complete and submit a declaration of compliance with The Pensions Regulator (TPR). To date, more than 8 million people have been automatically enrolled in a workplace pension by more than 600,000 employers. And with hundreds of thousands more employers due to reach their duties start date by February 2018, the number of people automatically enrolled will continue to rise. However, an employer’s workplace pension duties do not stop with declaring compliance. And with TPR conducting stop checks on employers across the country to make sure they are complying with their duties, it’s important you are aware what you need to do on a regular and ongoing basis to ensure you comply with the law. Recent research published by TPRshows the majority of employers did not have any difficulty with ongoing duties. The analysis shows that automatic enrolment is ‘business as usual’ for employers, and that it’s easier than they thought it would be. Most micro employers said they spend around half an hour each month meeting their duties and two thirds did not use outside help. Those who did said it cost them around £42 per month to use an accountant or auditor to help them. What are my ongoing duties? You will need to pay regular contributions into the pension, monitor the age and earnings of your staff and enrol eligible staff, process any requests to join or leave the scheme, and keep and maintain accurate records. You’ll also need to re-enrol eligible staff into an automatic enrolment pension scheme every three years. Let’s take these in turn: 1. Pay regular contributions into the pension You need to calculate and pay the employer contributions to your staff’s pension scheme on an ongoing basis. In addition, you’ll need to calculate your staff contributions, make the necessary deductions from payroll and transfer their contributions to the pension scheme. You’ll have agreed what these rates are and when to pay them with your chosen pension scheme. By law, you and your staff have to make minimum contributions into the scheme, and you should be aware that these minimum contribution levels are due to increase in April 2018 and April 2019 (see below).
Date effective
Employer minimum contribution
Staff contribution
Total minimum contribution
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