2. What we will cover
• What is auto enrolment
• Who are Johnson Fleming
• Market developments
• The regulator gets tough
• The solution(s)
• Next steps
6. Tried, tested & proven…..
• Combined pensions experience of 65 years
• Staged over 75,000 employees
• Completed over 700,000 assessments
• Sent over 126,000 auto-enrolment communications
7. When do I stage?
If you don't know your PAYE reference, it can be found on a P6/P9 coding notice or on
your white payslip booklet P30BC.
If you don't pay your staff through a PAYE scheme, your staging date will be 1 April 2017.
Step 1: Enter your PAYE reference:
• Tip: An example of a PAYE reference is 913 / WZ5121A. In this example you'd enter
'913' and 'WZ5121A'. Take care not to confuse numbers with letters; zero and the
letter 'O' look very similar!
Step 2: Enter the words/digits displayed below and then select 'Show my staging date'
8. 32 new employer responsibilities
1. Employer duties and defining the
workforce
2. Getting ready
3. Assessing the workforce
• Postponement
• Transitional period for DB and
hybrid
• Having completed the assessment
4. Pension schemes
5. Automatic enrolment process
6. Opting in, joining and contractual
enrolment
7. Opting out
8. Safeguarding individuals
9. Keeping records
10. Information to workers
11. 11. Automatic re-enrolment
10. Over 70 items to address before, at and after your staging date
On the Openwork adviser hub
11. Obligation – Who to enrol
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12. Obligations – how much to contribute
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0.6 per cent tax relief
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53. When should I start?
• No need to wait till
staging!
• Secure the resource
• Spread the cost
Don’t delay - Speak to your adviser today
54. Staff pressure
In time, enough people who pay into
the pensions (the staff) will start asking
some questions about where their
money is going.
55. Financial impact
Decisions will come under scrutiny
including those who influenced them…
…and those who seek to empower
employees to obtain restitution abound.
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Important information
Editor's Notes
If the number of calls we are receiving from Openwork advisers is anything to go by we are going to be in for a really busy year in 2015.
Over the next few slides I will consider what the market looks like and the experiences we have seen to date.
Pensions industry professionals with combined pension history of over 65 years in our consultants
Forefront of auto-enrolment
Staged over 40,000 employees
Sent over 60,000 auto-enrolment communications
Enrolled 29 of our clients
Client information
Current obligations in terms of contributions.
You will need to deduct 1% from the employee and you would need to pay 1% (which consists of 0.8% from yourself and 0.2% tax relief.
This will go up in stages in October 2017 and then October 2018.
You may pay more than the statutory minimums, you may also pay different contribution levels for different staff.
You could also utilise this an a retention tool as an employee benefit.
You may also want to consider the use of Salary Sacrifice, which will assist you to capture national insurance savings for the employee and employer.
If you utilise this option, once you get to 2018, the savings that you have made as a result can go a long way to pay for the cost of running your AE administration
We can provide you with the report for you that will take you through the savings, benefits and how to set up an HMRC qualifying salary sacrifice arrangement.
The cost of that service is £630.00
YOU HAVE A STATUORY OBLIGATION TO ENROLL ELIGIBLE WORKERS INTO A QUALIFYING WORK PLACE PENSION SCHEME.
Do you have an existing pension scheme? – you have hopefully already established this!
If so, have you checked whether the scheme is a qualifying scheme?
If the scheme is qualifying, have you checked that the current provider whether they will change their terms to become qualifying scheme for the different AE population?
The criteria the scheme needs to meet in terms of auto enrolment:
Qualifying
Charges under the charge cap of 0.75%
Default Fund
No barriers to entry
If you do not have a qualifying scheme, we can help you.
we have obtained preferential terms and rates from leading providers to enable us to offer a solution to meet everyones needs.
we will look at your profile as an employer and assess your needs.
From that we will source and set up the most appropriate scheme for you.
That will be supported by a full recommendation report as to why the scheme was selected and how it best fits your needs.
So what that means to you, is that you have a full report detailing as to why the scheme was chosen and how it met your needs in case you are ever asked why it was chosen
2012 – 2014 So from inception to the end of 2014 some 43,538 of the largest employers staged covering almost 20m workers
2015 – This year alone the number staging increases to 145,000
2016 – and then it simply gets silly!
The difference here is time and risk
What does your time cost?
Providers and other solutions will be based on a cost but you carry the cost of delivery (time) plus the risk of doing correctly.
Your time is not free….
The difference between the two is how long it takes you to run and the time cost to you plus an element of insurance that you have transferred the risk to someone else.
It’s a bit like conveyencing, you can do it yourself online but most people still choose a solicitor
As we looked at how many small employers will be entering the auto enrolment process as well as the larger employers returning to the market to find a correct solution, creates a huge supply and demand factor.
You do not need to wait, the Pensions Regulator recommends at least a 12 month period before staging date to adequately prepare for Auto enrolment.
You do not want to wait until the last moment, similar to shopping on Christmas eve at 23:58 and having to take whatever is there.
It needs to be planned and managed.
You are also able to spread the cost if you start earlier.