{"id":47818,"date":"2025-08-06T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47818\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:52:08","slug":"everton-sign-up-to-living-wage-pension-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47818\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton sign up to living wage pension scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The living pension is a voluntary savings target for employers who want to tackle low pension saving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katherine Chapman, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said Everton &#8220;is sending a powerful message that everyone should have a decent standard of living, now and in the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;Just as the real living wage ensures workers can meet their everyday needs today, the living pension helps them plan for a retirement where they can live with dignity and security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The management at the Toffees said the club had gone beyond the minimum legal requirement for staff pensions, in order to help keep workers out of poverty in later life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club has for many years made pension contributions on behalf of our people which are considerably in excess of the auto-enrolment requirements,&#8221; said Ms Haynes, as she announced the decision to join the Living Wage Foundation&#8217;s pension scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Full-time staff who work at Everton will receive a total annual pension contribution of at least \u00a32,950, with a minimum of \u00a31,720 coming from the club, adjusted on a pro-rata basis for part-time staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The living pension is a voluntary savings target for employers who want to tackle low pension saving. Katherine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-47818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47818","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=47818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}