The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a consultation for proposals to improve the automatic-enrolment process.
It is seeking detailed feedback on its proposals from employers and pension and payroll providers from 25 March 2013 to 7 May 2013.
The proposals include:
- Streamlining the process for assessing who is eligible for automatic-enrolment. The new regulation aims to allow employers to assess eligibility using information already collected by payroll systems.
- Lifting the requirement for people to be automatically-enrolled if they have recently been put in their workplace pension scheme and left it.
- Asking wider questions about whether the process can be made easier for some employers where their approach already meets the aims of auto-enrolment, or that offer a defined benefits pension scheme.
Steve Webb, minister for pensions, said: “We promised we’d listen to those employers [which] were first to automatically enrol their staff into a workplace pension.
“These proposals are to make sure that parts of the legislation work better and are more user-friendly.
“We are also asking for suggestions on how we could recognise the best employers.
“Employers and our partners in the pensions and payroll industry have made a major contribution in delivering these landmark reforms.
“We want to build on this as medium-sized employers prepare to automatically enrol their staff into a workplace pension.”
These are helpful proposals that recognise many of the current impracticalities of auto-enrolment and take us in the right direction.
It’s just a shame, as the current legislation was some four years in the making, that the more obvious points weren’t picked up sooner. Perhaps the most glaring example is the belated removal of the current requirement to auto-enrol people with enhanced or fixed protection, even though they clearly don’t need it and have already elected not to accrue further benefits for tax reasons.
..and of course many large UK employers who auto enrolled long ago (July 2012 for us) have now gone to the trouble of building systems and processes to accomodate the nuances of the existing requirements. Therefore the belated outbreak of common sense now gives us the option to (i) keep what weve currently got – which we know is a bit daft or (ii) spending time and effort unpicking it.
These issues which were enormously difficult to justify and administer had been questioned in all the appropriate forums for a year or more in the run up to Auto Enrolment. Accommodating the requirements now being reconsidered sucked many millions of pounds out of the industry and may cost much more to harmonise with the review decisions. This is not just hard luck for the providers but affects the service and employment prospects and has wider economic impacts. As a learning point for the future can the government (all of them) please impose common sense as the underpin of any change to pension policy and use experienced practitioners in the market to guide it.
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