Hi I am filling out my first declaration of compliance and on the staff details, section 6 question 3, it asks-on the staging date how many staff were already members of a pension scheme-does this mean, how many staff were paying into a private pension and enrolled onto the company pension or how many staff were paying into their own pension so therefore didn't enroll on the company scheme? I hope that makes sense.
My reading is only for schemes you have already set up for them (company scheme), but I could be wrong. Worth a quick email to them perhaps customersupport@autoenrol.tpr.gov.uk
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Joanne
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You should check out answers with reference to the legal position
I finally received my reply from the auto enrolment.
"Thank you for your email dated the 17 February 2017.
When completing the declaration, employers should only include the employees in the field on the staging date how many staff were already members of a pension scheme if they were members of qualifying pension scheme (i.e. private pension) prior to staging date and not enrolled into the automatic enrolment scheme.
If you have any further questions, please see our website. "
