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This week's top stories included British Steel trustees rejecting an "unviable plan" to rescue the scheme, and Baroness Ros Altmann calling on the government to amend section 75 debt regulations.

More than 20% of 23 to 36-year-olds are likely to opt out of a workplace pension they have been auto-enrolled into, research by Dunstan Thomas suggests.

AE staging dates are spread across seven years, but small businesses will have very little time to prepare for rate increases. James Phillips reports

Pensions Buzz respondents believe auto-enrolment is Sir Steve's legacy, but others questioned if he could claim credit for the policy.

This week we want to know what was Sir Steve Webb's greatest achievement, and if transfer values quotations to cash in defined benefit (DB) pensions have peaked.

Over a third of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that have already staged for auto-enrolment (AE) are contributing more than the statutory minimum.

Former pensions minister Steve Webb as well as The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) Charles Counsell and Andrew Young have been honoured in the 2017 New Year's Honours list.

More than half (55%) of small businesses see auto-enrolment (AE) as a burden, while 38% believe it is unfair on employers, a YouGov survey has revealed.

This week's biggest stories included coverage of the final day of the landmark British Airways case in the High Court, PP's definitive list of the top pension schemes in the UK, and the government revealing details on its 2017 auto-enrolment review.

Auto-enrolment (AE) has reached seven million people since it first launched four years, according to The Pension Regulator's (TPR) latest figures.