AE in figures: £15bn extra going into workplace pensions each year

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The Department for Work and Pensions has updated its assumptions on the impact of auto-enrolment, predicting that nine million extra savers will be brought into the pension system by 2018.

Here are the government's key figures: • Ten million workers are estimated to be in the eligible target group for Auto-enrolment • Nine million workers are estimated to be newly saving or saving...

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