Year: 2020

Find out what’s happening at Sackers. Our News section provides information about recent work, press comment and media coverage, and what our people are doing.

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GDPR – a reminder for trustees

The current global coronavirus pandemic is forcing trustees and their advisers to work remotely on a scale never seen before. All parties have had to rapidly adapt their processes in order to ensure the continuation of business as usual....

7 days – 14 April 2020

7 Days is a weekly round up of developments in pensions, normally published on Monday afternoons. We collate this information from key industry sources, such as the DWP, HMRC and TPR. In this 7 Days Coronavirus – Sackers response...

Automatic enrolment and pension contributions: COVID-19 guidance for employers

Update: As of June 2020, the Guidance has been updated to recognise that: from 1 July 2020, furloughed employees may work part-time and from 1 August 2020, employers will no longer be able to claim a grant for pension contributions. In...

7 days – 6 April 2020

7 Days is a weekly round up of developments in pensions, normally published on Monday afternoons. We collate this information from key industry sources, such as the DWP, HMRC and TPR. In this 7 Days Coronavirus – Sackers response April...

The impact of COVID-19 on member complaints

The impact of COVID-19 is widespread and significant, presenting challenges for trustees and employers in relation to members’ benefits. There is clearly the potential for a spike in member complaints as a result of the current...

7 days – 30 March 2020

7 Days is a weekly round up of developments in pensions, normally published on Monday afternoons. We collate this information from key industry sources, such as the DWP, HMRC and TPR. In this 7 Days Coronavirus – Sackers response...

DB scheme funding and investment: TPR’s COVID-19 guidance for trustees

Update: On 16 June 2020, TPR published a “major rewrite” of this Guidance, designed to consolidate various strands of its guidance, to provide an update on TPR’s view of the impact of Coronavirus, to explain how TPR will continue to...

7 days – 23 March 2020

  7 Days is a weekly round up of developments in pensions, normally published on Monday afternoons. We collate this information from key industry sources, such as the DWP, HMRC and TPR. In this 7 Days Coronavirus – Sackers response...