We can’t believe that it’s been 3 years since we first completed Auto Enrolment. This means those who have opted out previously and more than 12 months ago, will be re-enrolled if eligible.
Here’s what the Pensions Regulator says about re-enrolment:
Every three years you must put certain staff back into a pension scheme. This is called ‘re-enrolment’.
Your re-enrolment duties must be carried out approximately three years after your automatic enrolment staging date.
Your duties will vary depending on whether you identify that you have staff to re-enrol, or whether you have no staff to re-enrol. Either way, you will need to complete a re-declaration of compliance to tell us how you have met your duties.
Remember, re-enrolment and re-declaration is your legal duty and if you don’t act you could be fined.
What you need to do and by when
- Choose your re-enrolment date
- Choose your re-enrolment date from within a six-month window, which starts three months before the third anniversary of your automatic enrolment staging date and ends three months after it. You should do this now.
- Assess your staff
- On your chosen re-enrolment date, you’ll need to assess certain staff to work out if you need to put them back into your pension scheme. Do this on your re-enrolment date.
- Write to staff that you’ve re-enrolled
- Use our example letter template to write to staff to tell them that you’ve put them back into a pension scheme. Do this within 6 weeks of your re-enrolment date.
- Complete your re-declaration of compliance
- Tell us how you’ve met your legal duties for re-enrolment by completing your re-declaration of compliance.
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