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Choosing the best workplace pension for your business

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Transitioning to a superior provider is no longer a hassle: If you’re contemplating changing your current workplace pension scheme, the process isn’t as challenging as you might think. Many pension companies (we’re one of them!) What is a workplace pension? are prepared to assist you with the heavy lifting.

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Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Bill receives Royal Assent

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The Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. The bill, introduced in the House of Commons by Jonathan Gullis MP and taken through the House of Lords by Baroness Altmann, will see the age at which eligible workers must be automatically enrolled into a pension scheme lowered from 22 to 18. 2) Bill has received Royal Assent.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Auto Enrolment Pensions for Employers

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For employers, setting up an auto-enrolment pension plan for your staff is a must. This guide will delve into the intricacies of auto-enrolment pensions and how to effectively manage them. Understanding Auto Enrolment At its core, auto enrolment means establishing a pension system by the employer for the benefit of their employees.

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Why Your Employees May Not Achieve a Comfortable Retirement

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As an employer, you’re obliged to provide your staff with a workplace pension – a mandate made compulsory by the UK government in 2012. Unfortunately, a considerable number of employees adopt a ‘set and forget’ approach once they’re enrolled in a pension scheme.

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Top 5 reasons to check your payslip

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It’s worth remembering that it’s an employee’s responsibility to check they’re on the right tax code, as it impacts how much tax they pay – whether it’s too much tax or too little. For the 2021/22 tax year (and through to 2025/26), the tax code for most people under 65 who only have one job or pension is 1257L.

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Lancashire County Council ordered to pay £800,000 in discrimination case

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Anne Healey worked as an early years specialist for the council’s schools improvement service since 2012 after a teaching career. An employment tribunal has ruled that Lancashire County Council must pay out more than £800,000 to a teacher who was made to reapply for her job while on sick leave with cancer and then sacked.

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What’s new with retirement legislation

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Only 11% of private-sector workers participate in a traditional defined-benefit pension plan, according to new data from the Employee Benefit Research Institute. California’s Secure Choice Retirement Savings Trust Act, called CalSavers, went on the books in 2012. Court rules California’s auto-IRA program is legal. Crux of the case.

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