When an employee meets the criteria to be auto enrolled, you can let the system enrol them or choose to postpostpone.

There are two main types of postponement.

1. Postpone all employees
   You can postpone the assessment of all your employees on your duties start date. This is the date The Pension Regulator (TPR) say you must start assessing your employees for the first time. This means it’s generally only availble for a new business.
2. Postpone individual employees
   You can postpone individual employees when they start to work for you, or if they become eligible for enrolment at a later date. You may choose to do this if they have a temporary pay spike or just turn 22 years of age.

Both types of postponement last for a maximum of three months.

You can find further information on TPR website.

When you apply postponement, you must write to tell the employees. Do this within six weeks of the date you’ve postponed them. For more information, read Pension notification letters.

To postpone all employees

To postpone individual employees

You can postpone new starters before their first assessment. After this, you can only postpone them once they become eligible. for more information, read Postpone individual employees in your Payroll.

When postponement ends

Once a postponement period ends, the system assesses the employee and they get assigned a worker category. For more information on this, read Automatic enrolment - Employee pension assessment.

If the employee is an eligible jobholder, the system enrols them into a pension scheme.

They will not automatically enroll if they have any other status.

If they become an eligible jobholder in the future, you can postpone them again.