Earnings trigger for AE frozen until 2017

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The government has kept the qualifying earnings band for auto-enrolment at £10,000, resisting calls to lower the trigger to get more people saving into a pension.

According to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), wage growth will bring an additional 130,000 people over the earnings threshold, increasing pension savings by £6m in 2016/17. Figures fr...

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