DWP confirms fourth auto-enrolment certification option

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While casually browsing through the latest automatic enrolment regulations, I found something that blew my mind. There are not three self-certification options, there are apparently four...

Go fourth and multiply I'm not often surprised or shocked anymore when it comes to pensions regulations, but a bit like when we won gold for dancing horses, I recently found something that had me agog and aghast and ever-so-slightly excited. The particular regulation I'm talking about appears in "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) (Amendment) Regulations 2012" It inserts a new bit into the original 2010 automatic enrolment regulations and covers certification. Certification is one way that employers can demonstrate that they (and their workers) ar...

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