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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

• About workplace pensions

  A workplace pension is a way of saving for your retirement that’s arranged…

• Joining a workplace pension

  All employers must provide a workplace pension scheme. This is called…

• What you, your employer and the government pay

  The amount you and your employer pay towards the pension depends on: what…

• Protection for your pension

  How your pension is protected depends on the type of scheme. Defined…

• Managing your pension

  Your pension provider will send you a statement each year to tell you how…

• Changing jobs and taking leave

  If you change jobs Your workplace pension still belongs to you. If you do…

• If you want to leave your workplace pension scheme

  What you do if you want to leave a workplace pension depends on whether…

• Get help

  For questions about the specific terms of your workplace pension scheme,…

Workplace pensions - your employer's responsibilities to you to provide a workplace pension and what automatic enrolment means to you

Workplace pensions - what employers have to do, automatic enrolment, ongoing duties, stakeholder pensions

• Employers and eligible staff

  Employers have to provide a workplace pension scheme for eligible staff as…

• How to set up a workplace pension scheme

  You must set up a workplace pension scheme for eligible staff if you do…

• Manage your workplace pension scheme

  When you’ve set up a workplace pension scheme, you must: check if and when…

Includes automatic enrolment, lost pensions and planning for retirement

• Updated: 16 October 2025

'Defined contribution' and 'defined benefit' pension schemes - what they are and what you'll get from them

• Updated: 12 August 2025

This analysis covers the overall impact of automatic enrolment (AE) on pension saving and the characteristics of individuals affected by AE.

• Updated: 13 October 2016

Personal pensions, stakeholder pensions, SIPPs

These annual statistics include detailed breakdowns of measures for increasing the number of savers, and increasing the amount of savings. This release will include new metrics, including: breakdown of amount saved per eligible saver and employee by gender, stopping saving...

• Updated: 2 September 2021

A roadmap setting out the government’s provisional plan to implement reforms across Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit workplace pensions.

• Updated: 12 August 2025