This week, we’ve launched a new online Pension Tracing Service on GOV.UK, making it faster and simpler for people to find a lost workplace or private pension. The free online service has had over 100,000 users since we began testing it in October 2015, helping many to trace their lost pensions.
Pension Wise, the Government’s free guidance service, has moved to the Department for Work and Pensions.
6 million employees are now enrolled into workplace pensions, thanks to Automatic Enrolment. This milestone means we’re two thirds of the way to reaching the expected 9 million employees who’ll be newly saving, or saving more as result of Automatic Enrolment by 2020.
Workie. He’s the larger than life character we’ve developed as part of an exciting new campaign calling on people not to ignore workplace pensions. You can’t fail to notice him!
It is no secret that I have spent most of my working life in pensions – thinking about them, writing about them, occasionally dreaming about them, and debating how, together, we can make pensions work better for people.