{"id":588633,"date":"2026-08-10T06:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588633\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:10:18","slug":"almost-700-people-opt-out-of-auto-enrolment-scheme-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588633\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 700 people opt out of auto enrolment scheme locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 700 people opted out of auto enrolment locally so far this year.<br \/>The figures come following a parliamentary question by Dublin West Deputy Emer Currie to the T\u00e1naiste and Minister for Finance, Simon Harris.<br \/>The Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System, known as MyFutureFund, commenced on the 1st of January 2026.<br \/>The aim of introducing the system is to address the pension coverage gap that exists in Ireland and to provide workers with greater comfort and security regarding their retirement income.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, more than 840,000 employees have been enrolled.<br \/>556 opt-outs have taken place locally in 2026.<br \/>Cavan has had the largest amount of those with 202.<br \/>Longford&#8217;s next on 192 with 157 in Monaghan and Roscommon&#8217;s total is 135.<br \/>While in Leitrim, there have been 62.<br \/>Nationally, there have been 13,112 opt-outs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 700 people opted out of auto enrolment locally so far this year.The figures come following a parliamentary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[248572,72,176,61,60,174,175],"class_list":["post-588633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-almost-700","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588633","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=588633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}