DWP moves to make auto-enrolment work better

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) put out a consultation yesterday, based on feedback from employers and pension and payroll providers. Key proposals include streamlining the process for assessing who is eligible for automatic enrolment by allowing bosses to assess eligibility using information already collected by payroll systems. The DWP is also planning to lift the requirement for people to be automatically enrolled if they have recently been put in their company pension scheme and have left it. The consultation also asks wider questions about whether the process can be...