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Fri Mar 03 16:43:58 UTC 2023
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Automatic enrolment and workplace pension duties
Description

 

Automatic enrolment is a government initiative regulated by the The Pensions Regulator (TPR), to help people save for their retirement through a pension scheme at work.

Under the Pensions Act 2008, every employer in the UK must put certain staff into a workplace pension scheme and contribute towards it. This is called automatic enrolment.

If you employ at least one person, you're an employer and you have certain legal duties that begin on the day your first employee started to work for you. This is called your duties start date.

Automatic enrolment tasks

If you're an employer who has to provide a pension, you must complete these tasks:

  1. Choose a pension scheme.
  2. Work out who to put into a pension scheme.
  3. Write to your staff.
  4. Declare your compliance.

You can find further details about these four tasks from TPR.

Ongoing duties

Automatic enrolment is a continuous responsibility – your duties don't end after your duties start date.

  • Each time you pay your staff you must monitor changes in their age and earnings to see if you need to enrol them into your scheme
  • Every three years you must carry out re-enrolment to put back in any staff who've left your scheme. What is pension re-enrolment? > 
  • You also need to continue paying into your pension scheme, manage requests to join or leave the scheme and keep records

You can find out further details about these duties from TPR.

Using Sage 50 Payroll

You can set up and use Sage 50 Payroll to help you with automatic enrolment. We've got everything you need to do in the workplace pensions hub.

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