Pensions auto-enrolment earnings thresholds rise in Northern Ireland

Implementation date: 6 April 2014

The Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order (Northern Ireland) 2014 (SR 2014/81) prescribes that the earnings thresholds for pensions auto-enrolment increase on 6 April 2014: the lower level of qualifying earnings rises to £5,772; the earnings trigger for auto-enrolment increases to £10,000; and the upper level of qualifying earnings increases to £41,865. The order is consistent with an order made in Great Britain.