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Workplace pensions and automatic enrolment - how you're affected, how pensions are protected, what happens if you move job or go on maternity leave and how to opt out
A workplace pension is a way of saving for your retirement that’s arranged…
All employers must provide a workplace pension scheme. This is called…
The amount you and your employer pay towards the pension depends on: what…
How your pension is protected depends on the type of scheme. Defined…
Your pension provider will send you a statement each year to tell you how…
If you change jobs Your workplace pension still belongs to you. If you do…
What you do if you want to leave a workplace pension depends on whether…
For questions about the specific terms of your workplace pension scheme,…
Workplace pensions - what employers have to do, automatic enrolment, ongoing duties, stakeholder pensions
Employers have to provide a workplace pension scheme for eligible staff as…
You must set up a workplace pension scheme for eligible staff if you do…
When you’ve set up a workplace pension scheme, you must: check if and when…
Workplace pensions - your employer's responsibilities to you to provide a workplace pension and what automatic enrolment means to you
Find out how to claim input tax on funded pension scheme expenditure for both employers and trustees.
The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) Corporation is the trustee of the NEST occupational pension scheme. The scheme, which is run on a not-for-profit basis, ensures that all employers have access to suitable, low-charge pension provision to meet their new...
Personal pensions, stakeholder pensions, SIPPs
Find out what's different for PAYE when paying a pension recipient, commutation, lump sum arrears and other circumstances.
Includes automatic enrolment, lost pensions and planning for retirement
Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.
Work out how much money you'll get when you retire and plan ahead - State Pension, Pension Credit, National Insurance
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) pays compensation to members of eligible defined benefit pension schemes, when there is a qualifying insolvency event in relation to the employer and where there are insufficient assets in the pension scheme to cover Pension...
Working while taking your pension, State Pension age, retirement age, how long you can work, tax and national insurance, flexible working, discrimination
Work out how much annual allowance you get for your pension savings for 2016 to 2017 and each later tax year.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to...
This guidance is for employers and trustees on the ending of contracting-out of the additional State Pension from 6 April 2016.
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