The research also shows that nearly two million \u2018multi-jobbers\u2019 \u2013 people with more than one job \u2013 are missing out on over \u00a390 million a year in employer contributions because of the policy on auto enrolment thresholds. Multi-jobbers, who are often working full-time hours, are unfairly missing out on pension contributions for their overall earnings due to their income being split across different employers, thus falling foul of minimum earnings threshold for enrolment.<\/p>\n
Auto enrolment playing a really important part<\/strong> It\u2019s encouraging that more young people are saving enough for a decent retirement, and auto enrolment has played a really important part. However, auto enrolment was designed as a safety net for a country facing a pensions crisis. This year\u2019s study shows some of the hardest working and most financially vulnerable members of society are slipping through the auto enrolment net because of minimum earnings thresholds. This unfairly impacts multi-jobbers, who could be working the equivalent of full-time hours, yet without the financial benefit of having a single employer.<\/p>\n Renewed effort to improve the readiness for retirement<\/strong> Despite adequate savings rates having risen by 10% since auto enrolment was introduced in 2012, the stall in recent years demonstrates that a renewed effort is needed to improve the nation\u2019s readiness for retirement.<\/p>\n Source data:<\/strong> PENSIONS ARE A LONG-TERM INVESTMENT.<\/p>\n THE RETIREMENT BENEFITS YOU RECEIVE FROM YOUR PENSION PLAN WILL DEPEND ON A NUMBER OF FACTORS INCLUDING THE VALUE OF YOUR PLAN WHEN YOU DECIDE TO TAKE YOUR BENEFITS, WHICH ISN\u2019T GUARANTEED, AND CAN GO DOWN AS WELL AS UP.<\/p>\n THE VALUE OF YOUR PLAN COULD FALL BELOW THE AMOUNT(S) PAID IN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" But one in five young people still saving nothing The number of under-30s saving enough for retirement has risen sharply by 9%[1]. As the success of auto enrolment continues, two in five UK workers (39%) aged 22\u201329 years old are now saving adequately for retirement, up from 30% last year. Despite this, more than one… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleighcourt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleighcourt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleighcourt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleighcourt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleighcourt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleighcourt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleighcourt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleighcourt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleighcourt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nProjections using the latest ONS figures show that 1,831,127 multi-jobbers have at least one job that earns under \u00a310,000 and is not enrolled in the company\u2019s pension scheme. Based on the average salary from these jobs, collectively over \u00a390 million of employer contributions a year could be claimed if the auto enrolment threshold was scrapped.<\/p>\n
\nMeanwhile, savings levels have stagnated across the rest of the working population. At 55%, the proportion of UK workers saving adequately for retirement has dropped slightly for the first time since 2013, falling from 56%, the prevailing rate for the last few years.<\/p>\n
\n[1] 14th annual Scottish Widows Retirement Report \u2013 research looked at this age range because 22 is the age at which workers become auto-enrolled \u2013 Scottish Widows deems adequate retirement savings as a minimum of 12% of an individual\u2019s income. \u2018Seriously under-saving\u2019 refers to saving 0\u20136% of income.<\/em><\/p>\n