Automatic enrolment questions and answers

Most popular questions - General

• Q. Who will I have duties for as an employer?
• Q. What if none of my staff earn over £10,000 per year, £833 per month or £192 per week?
• Q. If a member of staff met the earnings threshold once during the postponement period as result of fluctuating earnings do they have to be put into a pension scheme?
• Q. My staff have been impacted by the rising cost of living and can’t pay their contributions, what can I do to help?
• Q. If a member of staff’s earnings are £192 a week or less, must they be put into a pension scheme?
• Q. Someone else is helping me with the automatic enrolment process, can they be sent information about what needs to be done?
• Q. Does Automatic Enrolment apply to me?
• Q. Can a member of staff who must be put into a pension scheme ask to leave the scheme before being put into one?
• Q. What records do I have to keep?
• Q. How often do we need to check to see if staff who don’t need to be put into a pension scheme still remain in that category?