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TPR sets auto-enrolment example with just five opt-outs The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has begun auto-enrolment with just five staff members electing to opt out. IFAonline's sister title PP can reveal that on the regulator's staging date on 1 October there were 336 workers already in a workplace pension scheme, amounting to more than 90% of workers. The regulator's 21 eligible jobholders were automatically enrolled and five elected to opt out during the opt-out window. This left TPR with less than 2% of employees not in its pension scheme as of November. To read more click HERE ...

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