Category: Ethnicity

We’ve frozen AE threshold levels, what’s next for increasing contributions?

January 24, 2025

Adequacy, Automatic enrolment, Contributions, Defined Contribution, Ethnicity, Gender, Income, Labour market, Pensions gap, Private pensions, Retirement

The DWP has announced that the automatic enrolment Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band will stay the same in 2025/26 as it was in 2024/25. These affect eligibility and contribution levels and mean that: This means that as earnings increase, more people will be eligible for automatic enrolment, and people will receive and pay more…
Let’s include everyone in inclusivity

December 10, 2024

Carers, Disability, Ethnicity, Gender, Labour market, Pensions gap, Private pensions

I attended the launch of the OECD’s 2024 edition of Pensions Outlook today, kindly hosted by Standard Life at Barings. One of the key themes of this year’s report is inclusivity, as in – how do we ensure all working people are included in quality pension savings? The OECD concludes that multi-employer schemes can play…