The Pensions Regulator has published its first in-depth analysis of the initial implementation of automatic enrolment.
Automatic enrolment: commentary and analysis provides an overview of the regulator’s work to prepare employers for the changes in workplace pension law. The report includes information on the first six months of automatic enrolment from October 2012 to the end of March 2013 - which has mostly affected the UK’s largest employers.
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Highlights include:
- From October 2012 to March 2013, 83 employers completed registration, rising to 1,153 as of July 2013.
- Awareness of the changes in the workplace pension law increased significantly between Spring and Autumn 2012 and was high among all sizes of employers.
- The Pensions Regulator website received more than 320,000 unique visits to the automatic enrolment pages, mostly with regards to staging dates.
- The regulator’s customer contact centre received nearly 8,000 telephone calls, 5,000 emails, more than 2,000 web forms, letters and faxes and had 600 face to face meetings.
Charles Counsell, the regulator’s executive director for automatic enrolment, said:
“This report reflects our desire to provide frequent, authoritative information and analysis to clearly set out the impact of automatic enrolment.
“In the last month we have announced that more than one million more people are saving into a workplace pension as a result of automatic enrolment. To date, more than a thousand employers have successfully completed the registration process.
“So far the implementation of automatic enrolment has gone well. Our focus ahead is to ensure that organisations with less experience of pensions are ready for their new duties. In the first few months of 2014, tens of thousands of employers will be implementing automatic enrolment. As today’s report shows, awareness and compliance among large employers is near universal and we want to see this mirrored among medium sized and smaller employers.”
The Pensions Regulator plans to make this an annual publication. This will be in addition to monthly registration reports, and surveys tracking employer and intermediary readiness.
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