Workplace pension saving rate hits 73% as AE staging concludes

Nearly three-quarters of workers were saving into a workplace pension scheme as of April last year, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows.
Membership of occupational pension schemes grew by six percentage points over the year to 26 April 2017, with 73% of workers now saving into such a scheme, compared to 67% the year before, largely driven...
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