Staging Date in August

obviously no idea with this employer, but i won'tbe surprised if there's a vast amount of small employers out there that are trying to ignore this & hope it will go away, it won't!

as an employer, i've just spent the last few hours setting up our scheme with Nest & trying to comply with the letter that the pension regulator sent us last, which appears to have incorrect dates/info stated on it, what a surprise!

i've got a reasonable understanding, or thought i did, of what's required but neither the Nest site or regulator site are particularly user friendly or easy to follow what on earth you're supposed to be doing. Nest kept bouncing me off the application process as it didn't like my browser (45 mins of live help to come to this conclusion) & pension site kept going around in circles after i'd logged in & wanted to start our 'declaration of compliance', which i've just been told after phoning them that isn't actually required until after our staging date. the letter received from the regulator specifically said i had to do this compliance by 1st Aug, but this isn't the case.

talk about trying to make everything as hard as possible to actually comply...

if they've got a 1st Aug staging date (if they haven't delayed that with the regulator, i don't know how long you can delay for), then they should have their employees enrolled online with their pension provider within 6 weeks of staging date. with nest, once enrolled, employees will receive a welcome pack within 3-5 working days advising all scheme details, level of contribution & opt-out info. employees will then have 3 working days & 1 calendar month from being enrolled to choose a level of contribution or opt-out, then deductions from pay will start. i'd guess that other pension providers would do similar.