{"id":295007,"date":"2025-12-02T14:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/295007\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:36:14","slug":"government-to-exempt-itself-from-having-to-sign-up-its-own-low-paid-staff-to-auto-enrolment-pension-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/295007\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to exempt itself from having to sign up its own low-paid staff to auto-enrolment pension plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Workers with defined benefit (DB) pension arrangements will be treated separately under the new scheme\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Social Protection Minister Dara Calleary\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2c32c4c1-9c7f-43ba-bb57-c1e9f14fdcfc.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Social Protection Minister Dara Calleary<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Government will avoid the embarrassment of having to sign up thousands of its own staff to the new auto-enrolment pension scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">New regulations coming in as part of the My Future Fund scheme could see huge numbers of low-paid public servants enrolled in the new pension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers with defined benefit (DB) pension arrangements will be treated separately under the new scheme Social Protection Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,24120,4176,24121,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-295007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-charlie-weston","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-money-experts","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}