DWP 'remains committed' to AE expansion in 'mid-2020s'

Industry fears reforms will now be pushed back until later this decade

Holly Roach
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DWP 'remains committed' to AE expansion in 'mid-2020s'

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed it “remains committed” to the expansion of auto-enrolment (AE).

The AE extension bill – introduced in the House of Commons in March last year – seeks to expand the provisions of AE by reducing the age for being automatically enrolled to 18 and abolish the lower...

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