Pensions ‘No sense’ in suggestion that women will be worse off with auto-enrolment pensionsOfficials have said it is crucial that the new system, which has been delayed for years, is up and running by 2024
Finance Delays to new pension system costing private sector workers thousandsThe timeline for the auto-enrolment scheme has been repeatedly pushed back
Pensions Mercer: Failure to raise Irish pension age to 68 sparks worry over sustainabilityThe government recently announced the age will remain at 66
‘Outsourcing the management of social protections to the private sector’: Why SMEs are weighing up the cost of new employee benefitsAs large firms introduce better employee benefits and the state continues to legislate for increased rights for workers, can SMEs cope with the cost of meeting these new standards?
Pensions expert calls for auto-enrolment age and income cut-off to be lowered Ray McKenna, partner at pension specialist Lockton, said current thresholds meant women in particular would miss out on help to save adequate retirement income
Workers can check out, but never leave: Can the government’s controversial plan defuse the pensions timebomb? The state’s new scheme for the 750,000 private sector workers who do not have a private pension aims to generate a pension pot of €21 billion within a decade. But opinion is already divided over whether it will work
