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What do employers need to know about the pensions lifetime allowance abolition?

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Credit: Natata/Shutterstock Need to know: The abolition of the pensions lifetime allowance in April will require an overhaul of employee communications, and a revaluation of pension scheme design and administration, including opportunities to simplify the scheme and reduce the cost of running it.

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HIVE360’s employee benefits and rewards app, Engage

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HIVE360 provides expert, compliant and reliable PAYE payroll support and comprehensive employment administration that reduces overheads and improves operational efficiencies for businesses, recruiters and recruitment agencies, their workforce and candidates. It champions a new model of employment administration for the UK market.

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5 steps to help employees engage with their pensions

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Jonathan Watts-Lay, Director, WEALTH at work, comments; “It’s important for individuals to understand that opting out of their pension will have a huge impact in the long term and will cause damage to their standard of living in retirement. It’s therefore more important than ever to ensure employees are engaged with their pensions.

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Do employees really need to be concerned about the Lifetime Allowance right now?

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Also, many employees in defined benefit (DB) pension schemes are unaware that their pension is valued at twenty times their annual pension for LTA purposes, and so an annual pension of £30,000 has a value of £600,000 for the purpose of testing it against the LTA.

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Early and multiple interventions will improve pensions engagement!

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The Work and Pensions Committee is calling for trials of automatic appointments with the Pension Wise service as part of its new ‘Stronger Nudge’ interventions. Topics can include reviewing financial goals, developing an investment strategy, maximising tax efficiencies and how to plan for retirement.

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What employees need to know to reduce the impact of the LTA

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million pension savers [1] are set to reach the limit and will be hit with a tax charge of 55% in retirement. However despite this, many employees don’t even realise that they are at risk. WEALTH at work has therefore identified those employees it thinks may be affected the most.

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Lovewell’s logic: Does the UK government have workers’ interests at heart?

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Over the past few weeks, there have been an increasing number of social media posts and press articles about a bill currently passing through Parliament, with which the UK government has the potential to fundamentally change employment rights. appeared first on Employee Benefits.