Pensions

New and updated

• Pensions auto-enrolment earnings thresholds rise in Northern Ireland

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  The earnings thresholds for pensions auto-enrolment increase on 6 April 2018.

• What are "qualifying earnings" for the purposes of pensions auto-enrolment?

  Type:

  FAQs

• State pension

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect the increases in rates for the single-tier pension and basic state pension, from 9 April 2018.

• Pensions auto-enrolment

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect increases in the limits on qualifying earnings, effective from 6 April 2018.

• How much must employers and employees contribute into their pension scheme under the pensions auto-enrolment provisions?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Pensions auto-enrolment - categories of worker

  Type:

  Quick reference

  Updated to reflect an increase in the pensions auto-enrolment earnings thresholds for 2018/19.

• Pensions auto-enrolment

  Type:

  Line manager briefings

  Updated to include the changes to the lower and upper levels of the qualifying earnings band for pensions auto-enrolment, in force from 6 April 2018.

• Younger staff 'don't know how pensions work'

  Date:

  27 March 2018

  Type:

  News

  Employees, especially younger staff, do not understand their pensions and could be putting their financial wellbeing at risk. Ashleigh Wight reports.

• Workplace pensions

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the Government's policy paper on protecting defined-benefit pension schemes.

• Pensions Regulator failed to press Carillion on deficits

  Date:

  20 February 2018

  Type:

  News

  The Pensions Regulator (TPR) was alerted about Carillion's pensions failings twice in the past eight years, but only began a formal investigation into the construction and outsourcing giant after it went bust last month.