Automatic enrolment and workplace pension duties
Summary
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Automatic enrolment is a government initiative regulated by The Pensions Regulator (TPR), to help employees save for their retirement.
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 automatic enrolment.
Your legal duties begin when your first employee starts working for you. This is your duties start date.
Automatic enrolment tasks
If you're an employer who has to provide a pension, you must complete these tasks:
- Choose a pension scheme.
- Work out who to put into a pension scheme.
- Write to your staff.
- 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, check for changes in their age and earnings to see if you need to enrol to your scheme
- Every three years, carry out pension re-enrolment for any employees who have left your scheme
- You also need to continue paying into your pension scheme, manage requests to join or leave the scheme and keep records
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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- Thu Mar 05 09:55:55 UTC 2026
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