Government legislation to facilitate auto enrolment for smaller companies

Monday 8 December, 2014

On December 1st 2014 The Department for Work & Pensions issued ‘Technical Changes to Auto Enrolment,’ a consultation on draft regulations.

 The draft consultation makes three key recommendations:

• For defined benefit pension schemes establish an alternative quality requirement
• Simplify the requirements on employers to provide certain information
• Create exceptions to employer obligations in certain situations

Richard Porter, Director Lonsdale Benefit Consultants said: “Having worked on many auto enrolment schemes I can appreciate that if this draft consultation becomes law in April 2015 it will make it easier for future companies to auto-enrol. Simplifying the quality requirement for DB schemes is positive. Enabling employers just to communicate twice or three times with employees instead of the current requirement to give 5 pieces of information should reduce the administrative burden on employers.”

Richard Porter is a Director at Lonsdale Benefit Consultants. Auto enrolment services are offered as part of the employee benefit scheme.

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