Employers and automatic enrolment

Understanding compliance with automatic enrolment obligations can be challenging. Delve into the essential requirements, key deadlines, and practical solutions to common challenges. Equip your clients with robust strategies to ensure their pension schemes meet statutory obligations and avoid potential pitfalls. Stay informed on recent legislative updates and best practices to effectively guide employers through the automatic enrolment process.

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Measures to unlock £160bn pension surpluses to be in future Pension Schemes Bill

Measures to unlock £160bn pension surpluses to be in future Pension Schemes Bill

The following Pensions news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Measures to unlock £160bn pension surpluses to be in future Pension Schemes Bill

Five companies hold half of £40bn FTSE100 pension surplus

Five companies hold half of £40bn FTSE100 pension surplus

The following Pensions news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Five companies hold half of £40bn FTSE100 pension surplus

Pensions weekly highlights—22 May 2025

Pensions weekly highlights—22 May 2025

The following Pensions news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Pensions weekly highlights—22 May 2025

Government confirms intent to include surplus extraction proposals in forthcoming Pension Schemes Bill

Government confirms intent to include surplus extraction proposals in forthcoming Pension Schemes Bill

Featured Pensions content

Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS)

Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS)

Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS)Why use a QROPS?In practice, many Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPSs) are...

Self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs)

Self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs)

Self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs)When personal pensions were first introduced in April 1988, they could only be established by authorised...

Retirement Annuity Contracts (RAC)—older types of personal pension schemes

Retirement Annuity Contracts (RAC)—older types of personal pension schemes

Retirement Annuity Contracts (RAC)—older types of personal pension schemesFORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: Section 10 of the Finance Act 2022 will increase...

Pension commencement lump sums (PCLSs)

Pension commencement lump sums (PCLSs)

Pension commencement lump sums (PCLSs)When a member of a pension scheme becomes entitled to receive their scheme benefits, they can usually take part...

Practice notes

Indexation and revaluation of pensions—changing from RPI to CPI

Indexation and revaluation of pensions—changing from RPI to CPIFORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: Section 10 of the Finance Act 2022 will increase the normal...
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Produced in partnership with Wyn Derbyshire of gunnercooke LLP
28th Mar
Practice notes

What does ‘contracting-out’ mean for pension lawyers?

What does ‘contracting-out’ mean for pension lawyers?Interaction with the additional State pensionBefore 6 April 2016, there were two levels of State...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Defined benefit (DB) pension schemes—who owns the surplus?

Defined benefit (DB) pension schemes—who owns the surplus?THIS PRACTICE NOTE RELATES TO DEFINED BENEFIT OCCUPATIONAL PENSION SCHEMESOne of the most...
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Produced in partnership with Wyn Derbyshire of gunnercooke LLP
28th Mar
Practice notes

How is the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) different from a typical occupational pension scheme?

How is the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) different from a typical occupational pension scheme?FORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: Section 10 of the...
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Produced in partnership with Julie Peaple of Nest Corporation and Michael Hames of Nest Corporation
28th Mar
Practice notes

Stakeholder pension schemes—the legal requirements

Stakeholder pension schemes—the legal requirementsFORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: On 17 March 2021, the Pensions Regulator (TPR) launched a consultation on...
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Produced in partnership with Wyn Derbyshire of gunnercooke LLP
28th Mar
Practice notes

Tax treatment of pensions—an introduction

Tax treatment of pensions—an introductionFORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: Section 10 of the Finance Act 2022 will increase the normal minimum pension age...
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Produced in partnership with Christopher Stiles of Gowling WLG
28th Mar
Practice notes

The Electricity Supply Pension Scheme

The Electricity Supply Pension SchemeFORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: Section 10 of the Finance Act 2022 will increase the normal minimum pension age (NMPA)...
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Produced in partnership with Gary Delderfield of Eversheds Sutherland
28th Mar
Practice notes

Pensions and divorce in Scotland

Pensions and divorce in ScotlandThis Practice Note provides a high-level summary of pension sharing orders on divorce in Scotland as they relate to...
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Produced in partnership with Claire Miller of Pinsent Masons
2nd Mar
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Practice notes

Pension bulk transfers—beginners’ guide

Pension bulk transfers—beginners’ guideThis guide is primarily aimed at trainees, newly qualified lawyers and other persons who are new to or...
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Produced in partnership with Wyn Derbyshire of gunnercooke LLP
28th Mar
Practice notes

Types of overseas pension schemes

Types of overseas pension schemesFORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: Section 10 of the Finance Act 2022 will increase the normal minimum pension age (NMPA) from...
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Produced in partnership with Stephenson Harwood and Fraser Sparks of PwC
2nd Mar
Practice notes

Case tracker—forthcoming cases—pensions

Case tracker—forthcoming cases—pensionsThe entries in this tracker are organised by topic. These topics are listed in the Table of Contents (to the...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Dealing with pension scheme members who are insistent clients

Dealing with pension scheme members who are insistent clientsWhat is an insistent client?The term ‘insistent client’ is commonly used to describe an...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Small self-administered schemes (SSASs)

Small self-administered schemes (SSASs)What is a SSAS?Small self-administered schemes (SSASs) are usually registered pension schemes that are set up...
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Produced in partnership with Wyn Derbyshire of gunnercooke LLP
28th Mar
Practice notes

Early leavers—revaluation

Early leavers—revaluationFORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: Section 10 of the Finance Act 2022 will increase the normal minimum pension age (NMPA) from 55 to 57...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

The pre A-day pensions tax regime

The pre A-day pensions tax regimeThe pensions tax regime under the Finance Act 2004 came into effect on 6 April 2006, otherwise known as A-day. The...
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Produced in partnership with Mark Smith, Georgina Wardrop and Angela Sharma of Taylor Wessing LLP
2nd Mar
Practice notes

Relevant life and excepted group life policies—practical issues

Relevant life and excepted group life policies—practical issuesStatute provides for two tax-efficient alternatives to a life assurance policy held...
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Produced in partnership with Kevin Gude of Gowling WLG
28th Mar

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Draft Finance Bill 2017—pensions

Pensions analysis: A range of changes to pensions allowances brings with it a new set of policies for practitioners to take note of, and perhaps also offering a few signs of things to come. Mark Latimour, partner at Eversheds LLP, and professional support lawyer, Patricia Critchley, go through the

Salary sacrifice and pensions

Salary sacrifice and pensionsFORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: Further to the Spring Budget of 15 March 2023, the Finance (No.2) Act 2023 removed the lifetime allowance charge with effect from 6 April 2023, pending the abolition of the lifetime allowance regime through the Finance Bill 2024 with effect from

Changing to a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)—pensions issues

Changing to a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)—pensions issuesA Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) is a form of legal vehicle which is incorporated under the provisions of the Limited Liability Partnership Act 2000 (LLPA 2000). It has been possible to establish LLPs in England and Wales since 6

Employer duties to provide pensions to employees

Employer duties to provide pensions to employeesAutomatic enrolment dutiesThe auto-enrolment regime, established under Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2008 (PenA 2008), imposes three key enrolment duties on employers:•to enrol all of their ‘eligible jobholders’ automatically into an ‘automatic enrolment