1. Select Pensions, then Add a new pension.
2. Select The People’s Pension.
3. In the Unique ID box, enter your unique ID provided by The People's Pension.

4. Select Add Group and complete the relevant fields from the table.

   Group Description	The People's Pension group description
   Group Identifier	The Worker group you've set up for this plan. The People's Pension uses Worker groups. You have different contribution rates for your employees.  Set up a plan for each worker group.
   Type of contribution	Choose the type of contribution you have with The Peoples Pension.     Salary sacrifice. Money paid into the pension deducts from your employee's gross pay. This deducts before calculating tax and National Insurance  NOTE: With Salary sacrifice, enter the percentage contribution for the employer and employee. The employee contribution shows as a negative payment on the payslip.  Contribution deducted before tax. Money paid into the pension deducts from your employee's gross pay. This deducts before calculating tax. Taxable gross pay reduces the amount of the pension contribution. This means the employee does not pay tax on this contribution Contribution deducted after tax. The money paid into the pension deducts after tax calculates. The pension provider claims back the tax paid on this contribution, direct from HMRC
   Type of deduction	Choose whether the rates are a percentage of the employees’ pay or a fixed amount.  NOTE: This option is not available for Salary sacrifice contributions.
   Employer Contribution	Enter the percent or fixed amount you pay into the pension scheme.
   Employee Contribution	Enter the percent or fixed amount your employee pays into the pension scheme.

5. Select Next and complete the relevant fields from the table.

   Earnings Basis	Only if you chose a percentage deduction, choose one of the following options: Pensionable Pay. The calculation uses only payments that have the Pension Earnings check box selected Qualifying Earnings. The calculation uses only payments that have the Qualifying Earnings check box selected You can enter your own thresholds for pension contributions. You can then enter an annual lower and upper earnings limit. When you process your pay run, Payroll adjusts the thresholds based on the pay frequency. It only deducts pension on earnings between the two bands   These options are not available for Salary sacrifice contributions.
   Annual lower earnings limit (£)	This option only appears if you chose Custom Earnings Basis. Enter the annual lower earnings limit for your pension.
   Annual upper earnings limit (£)	This option only appears if you chose Custom Earnings Basis. Enter the annual upper earnings limit for your pension.
   Contributions payment date	Select the date you pay the pension contributions to your pension provider.
   Default plan (optional)	Enroling employees into this pension scheme is automatic if you select this box. You can change this for individual employees when you process their pay run.

6. Select Save. You can repeat the process to add more groups. For example, have a different group for Staff and Directors.
7. Select Scheme Frequency.
    NOTE: You are only allowed one scheme per pay frequency. For example, if you have weekly and monthly paid employees, set up separate weekly and monthly schemes.
8. Select the Qualifying Scheme check box.  
   
9. To read the terms, select the our terms link. To accept them, select the Terms check box.
10. Select Save.
11. To set up a scheme for a different pay frequency, begin again at step 1.

 NOTE: Payroll will correctly calculate pre-tax and post-tax deductions. You do not need to adjust the percentage amounts to allow for a pre or post tax calculation.