Ex-Pensions Minister and pensions campaigner Baroness Ros Altmann has praised the Government and the Pensions Regulator for emergency measures to protect auto-enrolment and workplace pensions.

The Trades Union Congress, the union umbrella body, says auto-enrolment must be extended to all employees to avoid “injustice.”

A record 77% of UK employees were in a workplace pension in 2019, according to latest ONS figures released today.

Aegon has welcomed a move to freeze the auto-enrolment annual earnings trigger at £10,000, a step that will mean an additional 80,000 eligible employees will likely start saving for retirement.