Soon every employee must pay into a pension - will you opt out?
Poll started 30 March 2010 Soon every employee must pay into a pension - will you opt out? From 2012, every employee in the UK will AUTOMATICALLY contribute 1% (rising to 4%) of salary to a private pension via their payroll and employers and tax benefits will match it. Find out more in Martin’s Not got a pension? You will in two years blog. Pros: You’ll have a pension & it’s effectively a payrise as your employer has to put cash in Cons: Less in your paypacket. Your take home pay will be reduced due to the contribution. Which is closest to your view (be as honest as possible)
Poll started 30 March 2010
Soon every employee must pay into a pension - will you opt out?
From 2012, every employee in the UK will AUTOMATICALLY contribute 1% (rising to 4%) of salary to a private pension via their payroll and employers and tax benefits will match it. Find out more in Martin’s Not got a pension? You will in two years blog.
Pros: You’ll have a pension & it’s effectively a payrise as your employer has to put cash in
Cons: Less in your paypacket. Your take home pay will be reduced due to the contribution.
Which is closest to your view (be as honest as possible)
Results
| A. I’m self-employed/not working/retired it doesn’t apply to me |  |
1,271 votes (15 %) |
| B. I already contribute to a (work) pension so this is little change | |
4,557 votes (55 %) |
| C. I’m in: I don’t have pension now, and will happily use this new scheme | |
1,237 votes (15 %) |
| D. I’ll be in by default: I don’t have a pension and want to opt out, but am likely to forget | |
281 votes (3 %) |
| E. I’ll opt out: I don’t have a pension and will definitely opt out of this too | |
967 votes (12 %) |
8,313 votes received.
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