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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 following it,” says Shiels.

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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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5 steps to help employees engage with their pensions

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Given cost of living worries and the notion this may be impacting pension savings, WEALTH at work conducted research* with employees to find out their thoughts into what’s happening in reality. It’s therefore more important than ever to ensure employees are engaged with their pensions.

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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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How can employers nudge staff into saving more into their pensions?

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It is generally acknowledged that, despite the success of pensions auto-enrolment , saving the minimum contribution levels will not lead to a comfortable standard of living in retirement. Pensions can also seem too abstract to think about. The complexity of pensions and lack of financial education is another factor, Blake adds.

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Buyer’s guide to financial education 

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This is still an option today; for example, most pension providers will be able to provide information or even workshops to help employees understand their retirement savings and the products on offer to them via their employer. This is also the case for other financial benefits, such as saving schemes.

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How Suez Recycling and Recovery UK measures the value of its pension scheme

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Suez works closely with works councils, and pensions is always on the agenda as there is regular demand for higher employer contributions. So I wanted to find a way to prove that we as a business were getting value for money from that pension scheme and that it in turn provided value to members.”. “So That’s real value for money.”

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