{"id":226995,"date":"2026-01-04T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226995\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:36:22","slug":"auto-enrolment-pension-scheme-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226995\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto-enrolment pension scheme begins today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After many years of highlighting a pension scheme for all, the auto-enrolment scheme begins today.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the former minister Heather Humphreys signed the commencement notices for the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>From today, the employee, the employer and the state all contribute to auto-enrolment.<\/p>\n<p>Under the system, if you are not paying into a pension scheme, you will be automatically enrolled..<\/p>\n<p>For every \u20ac3 put in by an employee, the employer will also contribute \u20ac3, and the State will contribute \u20ac1.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Smith from Farnham Financial Services based in Cavan says the reason behind the scheme is to ensure everyone has a pension come their retirement.<\/p>\n<p>She says she can see the logic behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After many years of highlighting a pension scheme for all, the auto-enrolment scheme begins today. Last year the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[116588,72,176,61,60,174,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-226995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-auto-enrolment-scheme","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}