Guidance
Guidance for offering a default option for defined contribution automatic enrolment pension schemes
This guidance sets out our expectations on how default options for defined contribution automatic enrolment pension schemes should be designed, governed, communicated and reviewed. We intend it to provide useful information that will support good decision making and help protect members’ interests.
- Guidance for offering a default option for defined contribution automatic enrolment pension schemes (134KB)
– published May 2011
Automatic Enrolment: Guidance for employers on certifying defined benefits and hybrid pension schemes
This guidance sets out how to determine whether a defined benefits pension or hybrid pension scheme can be used for an employer's automatic enrolment duties.
- Automatic Enrolment: Guidance for employers on certifying defined benefits and hybrid pension schemes (318KB) – published 2 July 2012
Automatic Enrolment: Guidance for actuaries on certifying defined benefits and hybrid pension schemes
This guidance applies where the legislation requires an actuary to certify the test scheme standard. It advises actuaries of what they need to consider when determining whether a defined benefits or hybrid scheme’s benefits are broadly equivalent to, or better than, those that would be provided under a test scheme.
- Automatic Enrolment: Guidance for actuaries on certifying defined benefits and hybrid pension schemes (200KB) – published 2 July 2012
Hybrid Schemes Quality Requirements Rules 2012
These rules set out the quality requirements that a hybrid pension scheme must satisfy to be used for an employer's automatic enrolment duties. The rules need to be read in conjunction with the guidance for employers and actuaries above.
- Hybrid Schemes Quality Requirements Rules 2012 (42KB) – published 2 July 2012
Automatic Enrolment: Guidance on certifying money purchase pension schemes
This guidance is a revised version of the guidance first published in February 2012 for employers and their advisers on the certification of money purchase pension schemes
- Automatic Enrolment: Guidance on certifying money purchase pension schemes (243KB) – updated 2 July 2012
