Legal expert warns of payroll data staging problem

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Employers will accidentally bring their auto-enrolment staging date forward if they fail to separate current scheme members in receipt of benefits out of the company payroll, a legal expert warns.

Companies who pay former workers in receipt of company pensions through their current employee PAYE payroll systems will have falsely inflated employee numbers, moving them into a different staging...

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