Automatic enrolment is a continuous responsibility. You must keep records, monitor changes to your staff, and keep paying in to the scheme.
The Pensions Regulator has begun compliance checks at employers across the UK who it believes are non-compliant with automatic pension enrolment laws.
Employers found to be breaking the law could be hit with a financial penalty or court action.
Employers must still carry out a series of actions:
- Monitor changes to staff ages and earnings to see if they need to be enrolled onto your scheme
- Keep paying into the pension scheme at, at least, the minimum amount required by law
- Carry out re-enrolment every three years to put staff who have left the scheme back on
- Manage requests to lave or join the scheme
- Keep records on your pension scheme activity, such as names of those on your scheme, when money was paid into a scheme, and any requests to join or leave the scheme
Visit The Pensions Regulator’s website which contains detailed information on all of these points.
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