Every three years, an employer is required to use re-enrolment to put eligible jobholders back into its automatic enrolment scheme.
Since setting up a workplace pension, a company may have had employees who opted out, left the scheme, stopped contributions or chose to pay less than the auto-enrolment minimum contribution amounts.
Under legislation, they have a duty to re-enrol eligible employees back into the workplace pension every three years.
1) Choose a re-enrolment date
You can choose any date within a six-month window as your re-enrolment date. This window starts three months before and ends three months after the third anniversary of your staging date. For example, if your staging date was 1 June 2014, your six-month window will run from 1 March 2017 to 31 August 2017.
2) Reassess your workforce
You only need to reassess employees who were previously auto-enrolled, but have since:
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3) You should then consider
The employer’s duty to re-enrol is optional where an eligible jobholder:
4) Re-enrol
Once completed, you will need to re-enrol the remaining eligible jobholders into the pension scheme and complete a re-declaration of compliance with The Pensions Regulator.
We strongly recommend that the employer communicates the upcoming re-enrolment to those employees impacted. This is because once re-enrolled, they will be treated as if they are being enrolled into the pension scheme for the first time and therefore will receive the very similar statutory communication.
It may also be a good opportunity to communicate to the existing members about any upcoming changes to contributions.
It is also an opportunity to review the scheme as a whole and to complete a: