The law
UK-based employers must provide a company pension scheme and enrol their eligible employees when they join. This is called a pension auto-enrolment.
To be eligible for auto-enrolment, employees need to be:
aged between 22 and the State Pension Age
earn at least £10k per year (or £833 per month, or £129 per week).
Eligible employees will be auto-enrolled into your pension scheme when they join. For non-eligible employees, enrolment is optional.
Pre-requisite: Connect with pension scheme with Onfolk
Connecting your pension scheme enables you to automate most of your pension management tasks within your Onfolk portal.
If you're not able to integrate your pension scheme with Onfolk, go to this article.
Auto-enrolling employees in to the pension scheme
Onfolk will automatically assess whether a new employee who's onboarding is eligible for auto-enrolment or not.
As long as your pension scheme is connected to Onfolk, we will automatically enrol them for you in your pension scheme - you don't have to do anything ✨
They'll automatically be enrolled within their first month of joining and will be set on the company's standard contribution percentages - you can check what yours is here.
💡 If your pension scheme isn't connected to Onfolk, you'll need to get in touch to let us know who needs enrolling in to your scheme every month.
Manually enrolling employees in to the pension scheme
For employees who do not qualify for pension auto-enrolment, opting in to your company pension is optional - the employee will need to request their enrolment in your scheme.
If the employee confirms they'd like to be opted into your pension scheme, get in touch with us at [email protected] so we can enrol them for you.
You can view who in your team is enrolled on your pension scheme, as well as update employer and employee contributions directly within Onfolk. You can read more about this here.
To opt out employees from your scheme, learn how here.