Date change for automatic enrolment contribution increase

Your automatic enrolment duties include increasing the amount that you and your staff pay into a pension over a number of years. This is known as ‘phasing’. The government has announced its intention to change the date the minimum contributions are due to increase in order to align with the tax year. Despite what some press articles may have implied, this is not a delay to automatic enrolment, and employers’ staging dates will remain the same. Find out what you’ll need to pay, and when.