Pensions & automatic enrolment
Set up and manage employee pensions.
By Robert1 author47 articles
- Salary sacrifice pension labelGuidance on how salary sacrifice contributions are displayed on employee payslips to make them clearer and easier to understand.
- Understand pension contribution basesGuidance on understanding pension contribution bases
- Understand pending pensionsUnderstand your pending pension in Paycircle.
- Resolve pension pending issues due to mismatched group datesIf your payroll is in a pending status, this may be due to mismatched pension group dates between Paycircle and your pension provider.
- How to troubleshoot a pension submission failureTroubleshoot pension submission failure.
- Pension provider does not support PAPDIS formatWhat can I do if my pension provider doesn't support PAPDIS?
- Apportion employers' national insurance savings for pension contributionsSet up employers' NI savings on pension contributions
- Edit pension group settings for an automated pensionChange the settings in an automated pension
- Enable pension calculations for supplementary pay runsAutomate pensions on a supplementary pay run.
- Add a default pension communications emailSend pension notifications to team members who haven’t supplied an email address.
- Set up a workplace pensionConfigure a workplace pension.
Pension schemes
Set up and manage your pension schemes
- Set workplace pension contribution ratesConfigure workplace pension contribution rates.
- Set up a pension policy and contribution bandsConfigure a pension policy and contribution bands.
- Set up a workplace pension without specifying a providerSet up a workplace pension without specifying a provider
- Set up multiple workplace pensionsAdd further pension schemes
- Set up a non-auto enrolment pensionConfigure a non-auto enrolment pension.
- Authorise an automated pension schemeAuthorise an automated pension scheme
- Change pension settingsChange pension settings for an automated pension
- Turn the Direct Connection on or off for a pensionSwitch the Direct Connection on or off for a pension
- Pension showing as 'Pending'The pension on our payroll company has been showing as 'pending' for longer than expected, and is blocking us running payroll.
- Pension deleted or archived automatically by PaycircleA pension has been removed from an employee by Paycircle.
- Will pension letters be sent if I manually update the status to Enrolled?If I set employees as "enrolled" will the pension letters be sent?
- Pension unauthorised by PaycircleReasons why the pension was unauthorised
- Report a salary sacrifice pension to a pension providerWhat percentages are reported to the pension provider on Salary Sacrifice?
- Manage non-auto enrolment pension schemesManage employees / team members that need to be added or removed from a non-auto enrolment pension scheme.
- Extend the postponement period for a team memberExtending the postponement period for a team member beyond three months.
- Pension letters with ghost pension schemeAutomatic pension letters for employees in ghost pension.
- Process pension on an additional postInclude employees in a pension on additional post.
- Delay pension submissions for automated pensionsI would like to delay my automated pension from submitting when I run payroll.
- Disregard the lower earnings limit (LEL) or upper earnings limit (UEL) for a pension schemeI would like to disregard the lower earnings limit (LEL) or upper earnings limit (UEL) for a pension scheme.
- Postponement period overviewHow the postponement period works in Paycircle.
- Set pension period alignment for a companyI would like to align pension dates for a company which is different to my pay period dates.
- Apply an additional pension contribution for a periodHow to make a pension contribution in addition to an employees normal contribution.
Automatic enrolment
Manage employee auto-enrolments
- Relief at source (RAS) not applying for a team memberRelief at source (RAS) is not applying to a team member and their EE pension contribution is higher than expected.
- The workplace pension re-enrolment processRe-enrol for auto enrolment
- Correct a re-enrolment or next re-enrolment dateCorrect a re-enrolment date entered by mistake.
- Amend pension groups for automated pensionsChange group settings for automated pension schemes.
- Pension pro-rata when an employee turns 22Pension pro-rate for employee turning 22.
NEST
Guidance for NEST pensions
- Troubleshoot a NEST pension submission failureGuidance on troubleshooting NEST pension submission failures.
- NEST contributions stop immediately when a cease date is enteredContributions stop when a future cease date is added.
- NEST: Pension period dates reverting automaticallyWhat to do when your NEST pension dates are being automatically reset in Paycircle.
The People's Pension
Guidance for The People's Pensions