TPR receives over 100 reports of employers encouraging staff to opt out of pensions

James Phillips
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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has received more than 100 allegations of employers inducing their employees to opt out of pensions in the last three years, it has revealed.

The watchdog has seen an increasing number of such allegations made, and more than half of these allegations were made in the period from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 when they totalled 64, it sai...

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