Low earning women excluded from AE by trigger changes

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Up to 2 million women could miss out on being auto-enrolled if the government moves to peg the auto-enrolment trigger to the income tax threshold, the TUC warns.

The Department for Work and Pensions is planning to change the earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band for 2012/13 from their current level of £7,475 and £5,564 but the union warned it could ...

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