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The essentials

The basics of providing - and running - a pension scheme for your employees.


  • Interactive tools: Interactive tools for employers

    Use these tools to help you get to grips with your new employer duties

  • Guide: An introduction to workplace pension changes (PDF, 246kb, 4 pages)

    Read our leaflet setting out what the changes are and what you'll have to do to comply with your new duties, all in Q&A format

  • Guide: Workplace pensions law is changing... (PDF, 89kb, 5 pages)

    Published: April 2011

    A brief overview summarising your new employer duties: what you'll need to do and how you might set about getting ready

  • Overview: The 3 types of work-based pension scheme

    The different types of work-based pension scheme explained - defined benefit (DB), defined contribution (DC) and hybrid

  • Overview: Providing your employees with a pension

    A quick look at your duties in providing a DB scheme and a DC scheme (trust-based and contract-based) - particularly good if you're new to pensions

  • Overview: Employer role in running a pension scheme

    A simple overview of your 5 key areas of responsibility in running a pension scheme - administration through to the retirement choices of your employees

  • Guide: A short guide for employers: The employer covenant at a glance (PDF, 37kb)

    A short guide setting out how trustees and employers can look to increase the strength of the employer covenant

  • Guide: Making your retirement choices - Think before you choose (PDF, 156kb, 23 pages)

    Use this guide to explain to your employees the range of options available to those approaching retirement

  • Guide: Making pension fund choices (PDF, 248kb, 5 pages)

    Use this guide to help your employees make decisions about their pension such as how to invest their contributions

  • Information: Stakeholder pensions

    All of our documents and information about stakeholder pensions, including example documents, an online decision tree, the stakeholder register and useful links

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