More people leaving workplace pension schemes, TUC warns

Growing numbers of workers are cutting their workplace pension contributions or opting out of schemes entirely because they cannot afford payments – prompting calls for employers to increase the amounts they pay in.

by | 31 Aug, 2022

With real wages falling and bills rising sharply, people across the country are looking for ways to reduce spending and supplement their incomes, and the TUC said it was hearing about staff in both the public and private sectors who had concluded they could not afford to save for retirement at the moment.

“Based on what our unions are telling us, anecdotally they are saying quite a lot of people are having to leave schemes,” a spokesperson for the trade union said. “That is public sector and private sector … It’s something we’re hearing quite a lot from the public sector unions.”
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