Aspira Inform - Savings and investments

State Pension - Need to Knows

Heather Lewis

0 Comments 25 April 2018

The new flat rate State Pension came into effect two years ago in April 2016, and has been paid to new pensioners since then. If you retired before then, you’ll continue to be paid under the old State Pension arrangements which included extras such as the Second State Pension (S2P). The new State…

Auto-enrolment - Client Questions and News

Ben Doyle

0 Comments 25 April 2018

OPTING DOWN A corporate client recently called us to ask whether an employee could decrease their pension contributions to less than the minimums following the April 2018 increases. The employee had read about this (known as ‘opting down’) in the press and requested for the employer to action this…