Self-employed facing 'obstacle course' to save for retirement

SPP says there is a ‘structural gap’ in participation between employees and self-employed

Martin Richmond
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SPP Self-employment Working Group chair Martin Willis: The challenge now is to remove the obstacle course facing the self-employed and create a simpler, more flexible route to retirement saving
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SPP Self-employment Working Group chair Martin Willis: The challenge now is to remove the obstacle course facing the self-employed and create a simpler, more flexible route to retirement saving

The UK’s self-employed workforce faces a pensions ‘obstacle course’ to save for retirement, a paper by the Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) says.

The SPP's paper – The Missing Millions: Rethinking Pension Policy for the Self-Employed – said there was a consensus that automatic enrolment (AE) had transformed the UK's pensions system, with mil...

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