Robinson Reed Layton

Margaret Hawken MCIPP (dip)Payroll and Pension Services

Pension Reform and Auto Enrolment

DON’T

PANIC!

• We are here to help• The majority of small and medium sized business

will stage in 2016 and 2017

Robinson Reed Layton & DCNWho are we?

• BACS Registered Bureau

• Dedicated Payroll Team

Payroll Services Team –Working with our clients to provide a seamless service

• Importing variable data• Emailing password protected reports and payslips• Auto Enrolment Research

– Staging Dates– Assessment – Preferences

• New Clients

Employer Staging Dates

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Employers Staging

2017

• 845,250 employers

• 230 working days

• 3,675 employers staging per day

• Will the systems cope?

• Prepare early

Getting Ready –Working with your IFA

(Independent Financial Advisor)

• Initial overview meeting • Choice of Pension Scheme • Assessing employees – data provision• Setting up the scheme and acting as agents• Scheme charges• Let us know and we can help you get there

Getting Ready – Communication to Employees

• Robinson Reed Layton can be a key part of your communications strategy for auto enrolment

• The standard letters from Sage use The Pension Regulator specified wording

• General notices can be sent to all employees any time in advance of your staging date

• Or can be emailed to employees’ home email addresses (with employees’ permission)

Pension Output

• Standard reports for major providers in place• Bespoke reports or interfaces can be produced on

request• Data is available in various formats:

PDF

CSV

Excel spreadsheets

Text Files

Paper copies→ File upload

Going Live – Calculating Pension and Producing

Enrolment letters

• Going live – this is the exciting part – now you are ready for go live!

• Once the staging date has been reached, we can assess all employees on your first live run

• Deduct contributions as per the scheme rules

• Postpone employees with pay spikes, new starters etc as per scheme rules

• Produce letters to employees who have been enrolled and postponed

Record Keeping and Administration

Paper Paper Paper Paper

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Paper Paper Paper Paper• If you recognise yourself in this picture, it will only

get worse when you reach auto enrolment!

• By using Robinson Reed Layton’s services for Payroll and Pension processing, we can take this administrative burden away from you

Robinson Reed Layton & DCNHow we can help you

• Standard payroll processing & RTI• Pension assessment for auto-enrolment • Communications• Contribution calculation• Pension output• Record keeping

Pension Reform and Auto Enrolment

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