Why employees should be able to opt-down AE contributions

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Hugh Nolan believes members struggling with increased auto-enrolment contributions should be offered a chance to opt back down to the previous level rather than making it an "all or nothing" choice.

Some 235,000 employers have enrolled their staff in a workplace pension and over 6.6 million people are now in these schemes. So far, so good on auto-enrolment! This success strongly supports the n...

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