BrightPay understands that auto enrolment is a daunting task for bureaus. Payroll Bureaus don’t need to shy away from servicing these payroll clients. With the right auto enrolment tools, they can form the core client base of a profitable bureau.
Discover how to increase the speed involved in these types of jobs with BrightPay. Avoid inefficient or expensive AE software and save time and money. Simplify your payroll process and let BrightPay take the grunt work out of Auto Enrolment for you.
Auto Enrolment: 7 Steps to Profit with BrightPay
BrightPay offers a tailored and automated approach to these tasks. With BrightPay’s combined payroll and auto enrolment solution in place, bureaus will benefit from greater efficiency, increased value and improved cost savings. BrightPay is an easy to use solution that can allow you to streamline AE processes to provide a profitable service to your clients. BrightPay offers a simple solution to a complex problem.
Agenda
Auto Enrolment as a Service?
Automate & Streamline AE Task
Auto Enrolment Penalties
BrightPay’s Approach to Automatic Enrolment
Introducing BrightPay Cloud - Online Backup & Employee Self Service
7 Steps to Profit from Auto Enrolment
NEST - Helping make auto enrolment work for you
NEST has been set up by the government especially for auto enrolment to ensure that every employer has access to a workplace pension scheme that meets the requirements of the new pension rules. But we do more than just meet the regulatory minimum.
NEST comes packed with the sort of high-quality features you need, whether you’re saving with us, using us for your workers or helping your employer clients. Over 160,000 employers have already chosen NEST for their auto-enrolment pension scheme. NEST’s objective is to help you start your auto-enrolment pension scheme with NEST quickly and painlessly.
Agenda
How to set up an auto-enrolment pension scheme with NEST
Look at the areas to be careful about using the experience of other employers who have already started their auto-enrolment scheme
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Auto Enrolment: 7 Steps to Profit with BrightPay, Guest Speaker: NEST
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Auto Enrolment: 7 Steps to Profit with BrightPay
NEST - Helping make auto enrolment work for you
By Paul Byrne, BrightPay
By John Hale, NEST Corporation
6. Webinar Agenda
Auto Enrolment as a Service
Automate & Streamline Auto Enrolment Task
Auto Enrolment Penalties
BrightPay’s Approach to Automatic Enrolment
Introducing BrightPay Cloud - Online Backup & Employee Self Service
7 Steps to Profit from Auto Enrolment
9. Small Employers and Auto Enrolment
293,868
Employers completed
declaration of compliance
1,200,000
Employers who have yet to
reach their staging date
11. Small Employer Market
• Large and medium employers: HR
personnel to help with auto enrolment
• Small and micro employers: lack of
in-house expertise
• No knowledge or experience to make
informed AE decisions
• Gift wrapped business opportunity
12. Auto Enrolment as a Service
Employers with less than
50 employees
of an accountants client
base is made up of:
90%
13. • Are you ready or prepared to take
on auto enrolment business?
• What level of support / information
will you offer?
• Are you prepared for employers
coming to you last minute?
Auto Enrolment as a Service
14. Auto Enrolment as a Service
1. Time saving
2. Cost saving
3. Focus on core areas
4. Expertise
15. • Generate income and enhance
client relationships
• AE provides a new platform to
reach and upsell to
• Employers will be happier to
consolidate all their outsourced
services to one person
Auto Enrolment as a Service
17. • Having the right payroll tools will play a fundamental role in
ensuring the success of auto enrolment
• TPR recommends using an integrated payroll and auto enrolment
solution
• Ensure that your payroll software provider will provide all the
necessary functions to automate the employer admin tasks
Streamline Auto Enrolment
18. Streamline Auto Enrolment
• Speed of automation offers significant cost
savings to bureaus
• Useful when employers approach you close
to, at, or even after their staging date
• With the right tools, auto enrolment should
become a seamless part of the payroll process
19. Does Your Payroll Software…
1. Assesses your workforce automatically?
2. Allows the use of postponement?
3. Customise employee communications?
4. Calculate and deduct pension contributions?
5. Handles opt-in and joining?
20. Does Your Payroll Software…
6. Handle opt outs and refunds?
7. Notify you when actions need to be taken?
8. Keep records and provide reports?
9. Integrate with various pension providers?
10. Provide free support?
22. • TPR will enforce penalties if the employer ignores AE
• Those who do not carry out the AE duties in accordance with the
law will face enforcement action and penalties
Auto Enrolment Penalties
Statutory
Notice
Penalty Notice Court Action
24. Auto Enrolment Penalties
• TPR sources of intelligence;
1) Receipt of a declaration of compliance
2) Notification by a pension scheme of non-payment of
monthly pension contributions
3) Employee whistleblowing
25. Auto Enrolment Penalties
34,703 Total automatic enrolment
cases closed to date
26,040 Compliance Notices Issued
6,779 Fixed Penalty Notices Issued
26. Auto Enrolment Penalties
• Missed staging date – most common reason for TPR
enforcement action
• Within 6 weeks of the staging date – issue postponement letters
to employees
• Otherwise AE will need to be backdated to the staging date
27. Get in touch with the Pensions Regulator
Register with a pension provider
Assess your employees
Communicate with employees
Backdate any missed contributions
Complete your declaration of compliance
Missed Staging Date – What to do