Taylor review 'short' on self-employed pensions - CPS's Johnson

'Reinforcing Automatic Enrolment' paper

Victoria McKeever
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CPS fellow Michael Johnson has criticised the Taylor review for "stopping short" of making specific recommendations for people working in the so-called gig economy, including the self-employed.

In his latest Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) paper, Reinforcing Automatic Enrolment, Johnson (pictured) has set out 12 proposals for auto-enrolment (AE) intended to help low-earners and the self-employed in particular, as well as to maintain low opt-out rates and to save the government at least £10bn a year. He said the proposals were also meant to help young savers and employers. The paper has been published ahead of the Department for Work and Pensions' auto-enrolment review outcome, which is expected later this year. In other comments further on in the paper, however, Johnson sugg...

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