Next government urged to back auto-enrolment

Jenna Towler
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The Society of Pension Consultants has urged the next government to back auto-enrolment soon after it takes office.

The trade body set out its vision for the political priorities at the pensions system in 2010 at its annual dinner last week. President Duncan Howorth set out the body's updated whitepaper Pensions priorities for a new government. He said: "Three years on from the Turner Review, we now seem to be five years away from the introduction of a system that is key to addressing the long-term solution of raising retirement incomes for all those most likely not to have access already to a pension. "More worrying we seem to have little if any political consensus - a recipe for further delays...

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