'Truly transformative' AE policy brings 10 million into pensions

Kim Kaveh
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Auto-enrolment (AE) has now brought 10 million workers into occupational pensions since its introduction in 2012, latest government figures reveal.

This is one year ahead of the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) estimation that AE would hit the 10 million mark by 2020. Today's (11 February) announcement also means that one million more p...

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