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Top tips for boosting employees’ pensions knowledge 

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Need to know: Employers can tailor content and communication channels to different employee groups to help with their pensions knowledge. Losing the jargon will make the language of pensions easier to understand and more relevant to staff. Workplace pensions are one of the most valuable elements of the benefits package.

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49% of staff changed retirement plans due to cost-of-living crisis

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Almost half (49%) of working adults have changed their retirement plans because of the cost-of-living crisis , according to new research by the Pensions Management Institute. The professional body that supports and develops UK pension schemes surveyed 2,030 employees with pensions.

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BT boosts employees’ pension knowledge with financial education programme

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For the last 11 years, BT has rolled out a programme of financial education for its employees to help them plan for retirement. The latest series of retirement planning seminars saw a take-up rate of 73% of registered employees attending the session. before financial education, to 4.1

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How to help staff trace and consolidate small pension pots

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Credit: Dilok Klaisataporn/Shutterstock Need to know: Significant amounts of money are tied up in small pension pots, many of which may have been forgotten. The Pensions Tracing Service can help people reconnect with lost pensions. Employers can help staff with this process and engage with pensions more generally.

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What actions can employers take to close the gender pensions gap?

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More employers could introduce gender inclusive paid parental leave to prevent and try to close gender pension gaps. The Pensions (Extension of Automatic-Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill will remove the lower earnings limit, enabling more employees to pay into a pension. The Pensions (Extension of Automatic-Enrolment) (No.

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23% of employees unsure of pension size needed to achieve retirement income

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Nearly one-quarter (23%) of UK employees are unsure of the size of pension pot they require to achieve their desired retirement income, according to research by online pension provider PensionBee. When asked if they felt on track to achieve their desired retirement income, almost half (43%) did not think they were.

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Hays addresses the gender pensions gap

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Passionate about financial wellbeing , global recruitment firm Hays provides employees with back-to-basics roadshows and webinars to explain pensions terminology in a more straightforward way in order to combat the gender pensions gap. It has offices in 33 countries and 13,000 employees across the world.

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