{"id":3187,"date":"2018-01-19T12:59:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smh.group\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:52:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:52:54","slug":"auto-enrolment-becomes-business-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devstagesite.co.uk\/smhgroup\/auto-enrolment-becomes-business-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto Enrolment Becomes Business as Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since 1st<\/sup> October 2017, every employer in the UK now must place certain staff into a pension scheme and contribute towards it. Until now, there has been a roll-out programme in place \u2013 slowly bringing employers into Auto Enrolment by reference to a future \u2018staging\u2019 date.\u00a0For existing employers, the final staging dates will be February 2018 depending on when they registered as an employer.<\/p>\n

But those becoming an employer for the first time on or after 1st<\/sup> October 2017 will immediately have auto enrolment duties. On the first day a person starts working for them (known as their\u00a0duties start date<\/em>), they should formally assess them to see if they meet the criteria to be put into a pension scheme.<\/p>\n

To be auto enrolled, staff must be aged between 22 and state pension age, and earn over \u00a310,000 per year (\u00a3833 per month, or \u00a3192 per week). A Declaration of Compliance must be submitted to the Pensions Regulator, even if no one meets the auto enrolment criteria.<\/p>\n

The employer must give the following enrolment information to each eligible jobholder who is being automatically enrolled within the joining window.<\/p>\n