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Automatic re-enrolment

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Employment Tax
Guidance

Automatic re-enrolment

Produced by Tolley in association with
Employment Tax
Guidance
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This guidance note applies only to pension schemes in England and Wales.

Introduction

The automatic enrolment regime imposes a duty on employers to make arrangements for the automatic enrolment of all of their eligible jobholders into a ‘qualifying scheme’ (also called a workplace pension). Employers are also required to contribute to that scheme on behalf of eligible jobholders.

Although the regime requires the employer to automatically enrol eligible jobholders into a qualifying scheme, the jobholders have the right to opt out or even if they did not initially opt out they may, at some point after enrolment, cease active membership of the scheme. For any such jobholders, the employer has a duty of automatic re-enrolment.

This re-enrolment duty is subject to the same sanctions for non-compliance as the original obligation to automatically enrol workers into a qualifying scheme with effect from the employer’s staging date (see the ‘Sanctions for non-compliance’ section of the Automatic enrolment ― overview guidance note).

See Simons Taxes E7.210B.

There are two types of re-enrolment duty:

  1. •

    cyclical

  2. •

    immediate

Cyclical

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David Everett
David Everett

Partner, Lane Clark & Peacock , Employment Tax


David Everett, is the head of the Pensions Research team at LCP. One of his key roles is to analyse and communicate regulatory and professional developments to audiences both within and outside LCP.David has built up many years of experience in the occupational pensions regulatory field covering a broad spectrum including government policy and legislation, particularly that emanating from the Department for Work and Pensions, the Pensions Regulator, the Pension Protection Fund and other compensation schemes, the Pensions Ombudsman and the Courts and the technical and ethical regulation of actuaries through the Financial Reporting Council and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries respectively.He also assists the ACA in responding to government consultations.He's the editor of LCP's weekly Pensions Bulletin and undertakes other technical writing for the firm, as well as contributing to TolleyGuidance Employment taxes for the Pensions module.

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