Auto-enrolment: Who is left out in the cold?

Helen Morrissey looks at who has missed out on AE and what can be done to reach them

Helen Morrissey
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The Pension Regulator's announcement that one million employees have been auto-enrolled into an occupational pension is a landmark.

However, despite this progress the figures show a further 1.7 million employees have been left out in the cold as they did not qualify for automatic enrolment. These include those earning less than the minimum threshold of £9,440, those under the age of 22 and those above state pension age. While it is to be hoped that those under the age of 22 will be auto-enrolled in future the real concern is workers earning less than £9,440. The majority of these workers are likely to be part time employees. According to figures from the ONS there are 6.7 million part-time workers in the labour fo...

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