Labour plans to pull extra 1.5 million into auto-enrolment

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Labour is set to announce plans that would see an extra 1.5 million workers automatically enrolled into a pension scheme.

The party is expected to announce on Thursday it would reduce the threshold for eligibility from £10,000 to £5,772, reports the Financial Times. This would see 1.5m more people, including some 1...

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