Fiona Murphy asks what could happen if the auto-enrolment earnings trigger is raised?
A recent warning from the Trade Union Congress (TUC)'s general secretary Brendan Barber has bought the auto-enrolment (AE) earnings trigger back into the spotlight. Should government increase the current level or would it mean cutting out thousands of people AE aimed to include? The DWP is consulting on raising the lower earnings limit to £5,720 and the earnings threshold to £9,205. According to TUC, this will mean an additional 585,000 workers will be excluded. Under current plans, employers and employees pay contributions on earnings above £5,564, if staff earn above £8,105, the ...
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