Occupational scheme membership rises three points over 2018, finds ONS

James Phillips
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Nearly four in five UK employees are now members of an occupational pension scheme, Office for National Statistics (ONS) data reveals.

An additional 3% of the population signed up to workplace schemes over the course of 2018 as the staging of auto-enrolment (AE) concluded, the statistics found, based on a reference date of the wee...

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