Auto-enrolment

Short service refunds are to be banned from October 2015 according to the pensions minister.

Steve Webb speaks to PP about his plans for more changes

Pensions minister Steve Webb has put annuity reform at the top of his wish list should he remain in post after the election.

It is the responsibility of the pensions industry to get its message across as clearly and simply as possible, small businesses say.

Businesses need less time than the industry thinks to prepare for auto-enrolment, according to a small employer.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) expects a significant increase in the number of sanctions it hands out for auto-enrolment non-compliance as small employers hit their staging dates.

The government is looking at scrapping the link between the auto-enrolment trigger and the threshold at which workers begin paying income tax.

The NAPF is to widen its focus to support smaller employers as well as taking a broader view on lifetime savings.

Jack Jones says the annuity market should have been reformed, not ditched

More than a quarter of employees do not know what the changes to workplace pensions mean for them with 56% saying they find the term "auto-enrolment" confusing, a study has found.