Auto-enrolment

The Pensions Regulator has increased the pressure on employers to avoid using small schemes as auto-enrolment vehicles ahead of a consultation on the regulation of trust-based DC.

The proportion of defined contribution schemes which plan to reduce employer contribution levels as a response to auto-enrolment has increased over 2012, according to Aon Hewitt.

DC members at smaller employers cannot expect adequate retirement incomes after an "alarming" stagnation of contributions according to research from the Association of Consulting Actuaries.

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Section 6 of The Pensions Regulator's detailed guidance on opting out details how an employee can choose to pay contributions below the minimum level.

Low-paid workers who are likely to opt-out of auto-enrolment could be offered a pensions lifeline via a little-known clause in the legislation that permits companies to offer employees schemes with lower savings requirements, Helm Godfrey says.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed that women will be hit hardest when the auto-enrolment threshold is raised.

The Department for Work and Pensions is to close a loophole in auto-enrolment legislation which would have allowed employers using the defined contribution sections of hybrid schemes to defer enrolling until 2017.

Ladbrokes has selected Legal and General to provide its auto-enrolment scheme.