Reminder: Pension deferral period
08 November 2022
Employers have the option to postpone a worker's automatic enrolment date, also know as deferring. To do so, an employer needs to notify a worker of this deferral date. But are you familiar with when this deferral date can be?
If we look at the Pensions Act 2008 section 4(6), it says:
“The deferral date may be any date in the period of three months after the starting day”
The key piece of information here is that the deferral date is not linked in any way to the employee's first pay day, but the first worked day. An employee must therefore be automatically enrolled within three months after their starting day.
Don’t get caught out.
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