The COVID-19 pandemic has had far reaching implications for businesses and their staff, from lockdown measures to logistics. One area that Dataplan have noticed potential pinch…
In 2015 the Government first announced that it proposed to prohibit six-figure exit packages from the public sector, by imposing a £95,000 cap on such packages. Following public…
Have you ever wondered what happens to your pension if you die? There are various ways that your pension fund can be paid out to your family such as a lump sum or a dependant’s…
With a well-established Education Payroll and Pension Team, this new resource, led by our Head of Corporate Pensions Lucy Brewitt and her team assistants Sam Wingfield and Jake…
When you ask your employees if they would like to sacrifice some salary, there initial reaction will be ‘no don’t take my money!’ However, with auto enrolment pensions now being…
IMPORTANT shout out on pension changes from April 2018 While we did see a big campaign on TV and radio advertising workplace pensions over the last 3 years from DWP, not to…
They say time flies when you are having fun and the the three years since Auto Enrolment came a reality has been lots of ‘fun’ for employers, pension and payroll providers,…
At a recent conference on Automatic Enrolment there was a great deal of discussion on what happens when the smaller employees begin to stage their workplace pensions. The feeling…
Okay, so my business has staged for auto enrolment but I want to change payroll provider, isn’t that going to be a lot more hassle? At Dataplan this is a question we are often…
To date the introduction of workplace pensions under the new automatic enrolment has been a relative success with millions of employees enrolled. The number of employers affected…
