In the coming months TPR will be conducting more spot checks in towns and cities across the UK, and will help employers with their duties or take further action as appropriate.
Make sure your clients know what they’ll need to do to meet their ongoing duties and that their records are kept up to date.
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Changes to Government Gateway for Declaration of Compliance 22 February 2018
Towards the end of March The Pensions Regulator (TPR) will no longer be using Government Gateway as the authentication process for the Declaration of Compliance portal.
Instead, employers and advisers will log in to the portal via TPR’s own system. To ensure that the changes are user friendly, a series of testing and research has been conducted over the past year.
The key changes to note to the new ‘AE Login’ are below:
The landing page includes a guidance box ‘We’ve made some changes’ in order to help employers know what they need to. An example of the landing page is attached for an idea of what this will look and feel like for employers. Employers will require a passcode, which is easily obtained by creating an account from the main landing page. A ‘guest account’ has been introduced to help employers get started on their declaration without the need to set up a passcode. Helpful warning/reminder messages will appear in red if an employer is close to their duties start date, in order to prompt employers to complete their declaration of compliance. Those who are completing Declarations of Compliance for multiple employers will be able to view the progress for each on a ‘multi-employer dashboard’. This includes the option to search for employers and sort by declaration deadline. An example of how this page will look is also attached. What if a Declaration of Compliance has already been partially completed through Government Gateway? All previous progress completed through Government Gateway will have automatically have been saved. Once a new account/passcode is created, an employer will be able to access their partially-completed declaration and carry on from where they left off.
TPR has provided us with some screen shots of what the employer landing page and dashboard will look like and also what the multi-employer dashboard will look like; see the links below.
Declaration of Compliance – employer dashboard Declaration of Compliance – multi-employer dashboard
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Increases in automatic enrolment pension contributions 1 March 2018
Have you let your employees know about the increases to their auto enrolment pension contributions from 6 April 2018? The Pensions Regulator has updated their template letter for employers.
From 6 April 2018, employers will have to contribute a minimum of 2% into their employees’ workplace pension, and employees will have to contribute the shortfall from a portion of their earnings, to make a total of 5% paid into the employees’ retirement savings.
The employer can pay more than the minimum and can choose to pay the 5% meaning employees would not have to contribute.
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