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    Step-by-step guide to automatic enrolment
    • Duties Checker

    You can preview the duty options listed below, but we recommend that you use our Duties Checker to understand the specific steps you need to take.

    • I am an employer who has to provide a pension
    • I am an employer who doesn't have to provide a pension now but still has duties
    • I employ a personal care assistant and need to provide a pension
    • I employ a personal care assistant and don't need a pension scheme now
    • I employ people in the home and need to provide a pension
    • I employ people in the home and don't need to provide a pension now
    Automatic enrolment useful links
    • Find out your staging date
    • What happens if I don't comply?
    • Automatic re-enrolment
    Managing a scheme
    • Contributions and funding
    • Reporting duties
    • DB scheme funding and costs
    • Retirement options for DC members
    • Reviewing a scheme
    • Communicating with your scheme members
    • Stakeholder pensions
    • Closing your scheme
  • Business advisers
    DC scheme management
    • Changes for DC schemes
    • Manage risks
    • Investment management
    • Record-keeping
    • Scheme administration
    • Maintaining contributions
    • Manage conflicts of interest
    • Assess and improve value for money
    • Member communication
    • Retirement process
    • Check the quality of your clients' schemes
    • Work-based personal pensions
    Automatic enrolment guide for business advisers
    • What you need to do and by when
    • How we are helping employers
    • 1. Checking your client's staging date
    • 2. Being a point of contact
    • 3. Checking who to enrol
    • 4. Working out your client's costs
    • 5. Checking records and payroll processes
    • 6. Choosing a pension scheme
    • 7. Assessing and enrolling staff
    • 8. Writing to your client's staff
    • 9. Knowing your client's ongoing duties
    • 10. Completing the declaration of compliance
    • 11. Re-enrolment
    • Supporting resources
    DB scheme management
    • Funding and investment
    • Scheme governance and controls
    • Keeping records
    • Contributions
    • Providing information to members
    • Managing conflicts of interest
    • Corporate transactions and changes
    Hybrid scheme management Reporting and regulatory duties
    • Protect your clients' members against pension scams
    • Reporting and registering
    Setting up a scheme Closing a scheme
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    • DB Code
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    • Consultations

    Automatic enrolment

    Employers are likely to ask you for help to choose and run a good quality pension scheme for automatic enrolment.


    Exchange

    Use Exchange to:

    • submit a scheme return
    • update scheme details
    • submit late payment of contributions reports
  • Trustees
    Understanding your role
    • An introduction to trusteeship
    • Detailed guidance for trustees
    • Ongoing learning and development
    • Protect your members against pension scams
    Managing your DB scheme
    • Funding
    • Governance and administration
    • DB scheme costs comparison tool
    • Corporate changes and transactions
    • Winding up your DB scheme
    Managing your DC scheme
    • New duties for DC schemes
    • Investment
    • Administration
    • Risk management
    • Conflicts of interest
    • Communicating with members
    • Value for money
    • Retirement options
    • Check the quality of your scheme
    • What happens if you don't meet your duties
    • Closing your DC scheme
    Managing your hybrid scheme Automatic enrolment and the role of trustees
    Reporting requirements
    • Exchange: online service
    • Levy
    • Submitting recovery plans
    • Scheme return
    Independent trustee register
    • About the trustee register
    • Joining the trustee register
    Featured
    • Exchange
    • Pension scams
    • Master trust assurance

    Trustee toolkit

    Our free e-learning programme to help trustees understand their role.


    Codes of practice
    • DB Code
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    Automatic enrolment detailed guidance
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    Section 89 reports Forms available for download
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    Automatic enrolment Automatic enrolment logo

    Workplace pensions law has changed and every employer must comply. Find out more.


    Featured report

    Automatic enrolment monthly declaration of compliance report (PDF, 92kb, 5 pages)

    This is a rolling report starting from July 2012 which we update monthly

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    Automatic enrolment

    Employers across the UK are now providing a workplace pension for their staff. Make sure you do too.

    Employers - Act now
    Business advisers - Get ready
  • The new DC governance standards

    Trustees now need to make sure their DC scheme meets new governance standards

    Find out what you need to do
  • Scamproof your savings

    Pension scams. Don’t get stung.
  • Striking the balance for your defined benefit scheme

    Use our revised code to ensure your defined benefit (DB) pension scheme is run and funded effectively in order to meet its promises.

    Make sure your scheme meets its promises
  • Automatic enrolment
  • Defined contribution
  • Pension scams
  • Defined benefit

Employers

Your role in providing a good quality pension scheme

Featured:
Step-by-step guide to automatic enrolment

Business advisers

For IFAs, EBCs, actuaries, accountants, bookkeepers & payroll administrators

Featured:
Automatic enrolment guide for advisers

Trustees

Understand your role as a pension scheme trustee

Featured:
New duties for DC schemes

Individuals

For workers and members of the public

Featured:
Protect yourself against pension scams

Public service

Governance and administration of public service pension schemes

Featured:
Code of practice

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