One in five millennials likely to opt out of AE

James Phillips
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More than 20% of 23 to 36-year-olds are likely to opt out of a workplace pension they have been auto-enrolled into, research by Dunstan Thomas suggests.

The estimated opt-out rate currently sits at around 10%, suggesting a doubling of people leaving their pension scheme just as the auto-enrolment (AE) programme enters its final phase of staging sma...

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