Guidance and support

Updates from ICAEW and the Pensions Regulator

Regularly updated common Questions and answers for business advisers, covering a wide variety of auto-enrolment topics, are also available on our Introduction to auto-enrolment for business advisers page.

• Milestone for workplace pensions regulation as TPR launches new approach
• Pensions Regulator, September 2018
  An increasing number of workplace pension schemes will come under greater scrutiny from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) as part of a significant shift in its approach to protect savers.
• Trustee fined for failing to report unpaid pension contributions
  Pensions Regulator, June 2018
  Scheme trustee failed for failing to tell the Pensions Regulator and pension scheme members that almost £900,000 of pension contributions from employers had not been collected or invested.
• Recruitment firm bosses posed as staff to stop workers getting pensions
  Pensions Regulator, June 2018
  A recruitment company and senior members of staff have pleaded guilty to unauthorised use of the company's online pension system to opt temporary employees out of their workplace pension scheme. 
• Healthcare company fined after misleading TPR about staff workplace pensions
  Pensions Regulator, May 2018
  Healthcare company and its managing director fined over £20,000 for the offence of knowingly or recklessly providing false or misleading information to TPR and wilfully failing to comply with their automatic enrolment duties.
• April 2018 contributions increase
  Practicewire, February 2018
  Increased minimum contribution rises come into force from April 2018 - here's everything you need to know about the changes. 
• Automatic enrolment: Are your clients thinking of employing temporary or seasonal staff?
  Practicewire, December 2017
  Clients planning to take on short term, seasonal or temporary staff may find it useful to delay their assessment and enrolment - this is know as postponement. 
• Automatic enrolment: minimum contribution levels due to increase in April 2018 and April 2019
  Practicewire, June 2017
  A reminder from the Pensions Regulator that employers will need to plan ahead for the coming minimum contribution level rises, with advice for business advisors on supporting clients with the increases.
• Automatic enrolment: what happens if my client doesn't comply or is late complying?
  Practicewire, February 2017
  Guidance from the Pensions Regulator to business advisors whose clients haven’t yet complied with their Automatic Enrolment (AE) duties.
• Spreading your wings
  FS Focus, January 2015
  Pension reforms are an opportunity for chartered accountants to demonstrate to clients how they can add value. Alan Hind explains how a designated professional body licence can help.

ICAEW Library & Information Service

The ICAEW Library & Information Service includes a collection of print and online articles and books for pensions auto-enrolment that can support your work. Click on the links below to see our catalogue record and holdings for each item. 

We can also supply a variety of model documents, including example engagement letters and disclosure checklists, through our document supply service. 

Selected titles

Autoenrolment eBook
Camilla Barry (ICSA, 2013)
A guide to auto-enrolment legislation, written for company secretaries and employers, although employees, trustees and others involved in pensions’ administration will also find it useful. This eBook is available for download by ICAEW members and ACA students. 

Pensions law handbook
J.Bell (Bloomsbury, 2019)
A guide to all aspects of pensions law and practice in the UK, including auto-enrolment.

Pensions auto-enrolment made easy
D.Strange (Indicator, 2014)
Chapters cover: the pension regulator's role; auto-enrolment basics; timing your auto-enrolment; employee categories; employee rights to opt in and out of a workplace pension; postponement or waiting periods; pension schemes; contributions; investment options; calculating earnings for auto-enrolment; tax relief on contributions; employer compliance; auto-enrolment management; prohibited actions; example scenarios; and pension scheme providers.

Further titles

• View a list of recent articles and books in our collection on auto-enrolment

You can obtain copies of articles or extracts of books and reports by post, fax or email through our document supply service.

To find out how you can borrow books from the Library please see our guide to book loans.