Auto-enrolment

After the government's auto-enrolment review found 12 million people were under-saving, Jonathan Stapleton says changes are needed to ensure young workers can afford to retire.

All private sector defined benefit (DB) schemes will have at least closed to accrual by 2028, according to this week's Pensions Buzz respondents.

In this week's Pensions Buzz we want to know if you think there will be any private sector defined benefit schemes still open to accrual within a decade.

The government has published its auto-enrolment (AE) review report - unveiling a range of plans to "maintain the momentum achieved so far".

The timeline for implementing DWP proposals under the 2017 automatic enrolment (AE) review is "shockingly lethargic", Royal London director of policy Steve Webb has said.

The government has set out plans to scrap the auto-enrolment (AE) lower earnings limit and extend the programme to 18-year-olds, but not until the mid-2020s.

Stotts Tours and its managing director Alan Stott will be ordered to pay over £30,000 for their failure to set up a pension scheme for their staff.

Auto-enrolment (AE) has now brought nine million workers into occupational pensions since its introduction in 2012, latest government figures show.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is seeking to convict a healthcare company and its managing director for allegedly breaching their auto-enrolment (AE) duties.

This week's top stories included calls for a national pensions debate to discuss investment strategies, and Xafinity's plans to acquire some Punter Southall businesses.