Pension Auto Enrolment Services for Employers
Pension auto enrolment creates ongoing responsibilities for employers. It isn't simply a case of setting up a workplace pension scheme – you need to assess your employees, enrol eligible staff, manage contributions, communicate with employees and keep the appropriate records.
Our pension auto enrolment service takes care of the administration for you, helping you meet your employer responsibilities without having to manage the process yourself.
Whether you're taking on your first employee, setting up a workplace pension for the first time or need help managing an existing scheme, our experienced team can help.
What Our Pension Auto Enrolment Services Include
We can manage the day-to-day administration of your workplace pension scheme, working alongside your payroll to make sure the correct employee information and pension contributions are processed. Our service includes:
- Assessing employees for pension auto enrolment
- Monitoring employees' age and earnings
- Enrolling eligible employees into your workplace pension scheme
- Recording pension contributions with your chosen pension provider
- Managing employee pension communications
- Processing and maintaining opt-out notices
- Maintaining the required pension records
- Managing employees who choose to opt in
- Dealing with pension re-enrolment
- Completing the required re-declaration of compliance
This gives you an experienced team to manage the ongoing pension administration while you concentrate on running your business.
Setting Up Pension Auto Enrolment for a New Employer
If you're employing staff for the first time, we can help you establish your pension auto enrolment arrangements from the outset.
We can help set up your workplace pension scheme and then manage the ongoing administration once it is in place.
Rather than having to work out what needs to happen and when, you have an experienced team managing the pension administration alongside your payroll.
Assessing and Enrolling Your Employees
Not every employee will necessarily have the same pension auto enrolment status.
Eligibility can depend on factors including an employee's age and earnings, and an employee's circumstances can change over time.
As part of our ongoing pension auto enrolment service, we monitor your employees and enrol them into the workplace pension scheme when required. This means pension auto enrolment isn't treated as a one-off exercise when an employee joins your business. Their eligibility continues to be monitored as part of the ongoing service.
Employee Auto Enrolment Communications
Employers have responsibilities to communicate with their employees about workplace pensions and explain how pension auto enrolment applies to them.
We take care of the relevant employee communications as part of our service, including writing to new employees to advise them of their pension auto enrolment rights and enrolling them into the pension scheme where appropriate.
This removes another piece of administration from your business and helps ensure the required pension communications aren't overlooked.
Managing Pension Opt-Outs and Opt-Ins
Employees may decide to opt out of their workplace pension, while other employees may ask to join. These decisions need to be reflected correctly in your pension records and payroll. We manage and maintain employee opt-out notices and can deal with employees who need to be opted into the pension scheme, keeping your pension records up to date.
Pension Re-Enrolment and Re-Declaration
Your pension auto enrolment responsibilities continue after your workplace pension has been established. Eligible employees who have previously opted out may need to be put back into the pension scheme at the appropriate re-enrolment date. Employers also have responsibilities relating to their re-declaration of compliance. Our ongoing pension administration service manages this process for you, including re-enrolment and completing the required re-declaration.
Pension Auto Enrolment and Payroll
Pension contributions and payroll are closely connected, so managing the two together can make the process much simpler.
When we manage your payroll and pension auto enrolment, the services work together so that employee information and pension contributions can be processed accurately and provided to your chosen pension provider.
Already process your own payroll? Pension auto enrolment administration is also available as a standalone service, so you don't have to outsource your payroll to us in order to get help managing your workplace pension.
Why Outsource Pension Auto Enrolment Administration?
Managing pension auto enrolment yourself means keeping track of employee eligibility, pension contributions, employee communications, opt-outs, records and re-enrolment requirements.
Outsourcing the administration gives you an experienced team to manage these tasks on your behalf and ensures deductions are set up correctly according to the type of pension scheme.
You still retain oversight of your workplace pension, but you don't have to spend valuable time managing the routine administration or keeping track of what needs to happen next.
Pension Auto Enrolment Services Across the UK
We're based in Salisbury, Wiltshire, but our pension auto enrolment services are available to employers throughout the UK. The service can be managed remotely, making it suitable for businesses regardless of where they're based.
Watch our video below, to find out more about auto enrolment pensions. Whilst it was recorded more than 10 years ago when the auto enrolment pension scheme was just starting, much of the video is still relevant today.
