Several of the employers we work with reached their Staging Date between January and March enabling us to finally complete the set up process which we started for them many months ago. But while implementation is complete there is still ongoing assessment, compliance and record keeping to be done every month. …

I was very privileged last week to be invited by John Glen MP to attend the Department for Work and Pensions Select Committee to provide an insight into how auto enrolment is affecting small businesses. The DWP Select Committee launched an inquiry into pensions auto enrolment in December 2015 and since then a variety of individuals and organisations have provided written or given oral evidence. …

All businesses who employ staff will be aware from the adverts on television, the articles in the press, editorials online and the information letters they will have received from The Pension Regulator that they cannot ignore Pension Auto Enrolment.
 
 So what are the 5 most important things you need to do before it is too late? …

For the last two weeks Karen, our Auto Enrolment Administrator, has been busy setting up workplace pension schemes with The People's Pension. This has been the most popular pension scheme with our client employers and several of them decided to have it set up before the new charges came into place today. Since the announcement was made Karen has set up 12 schemes for …

We have been talking to our employer clients about pension auto-enrolment for some time now and presenting them with fact sheets about the three schemes which would not cost them anything to set up. NEST, NOW Pensions and The People's Pension were all schemes that would take small employers with less than 50 employees. …