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Your pension providers can tell you whether any of these will apply.
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Transferring to an overseas pension scheme
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You may be able to transfer your UK pension savings to an overseas pension scheme.
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Get help and advice including if you’re concerned about a pension scam.
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Schemes you can transfer to
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The overseas scheme you want to transfer your pension savings to must be a ‘qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme’ (QROPS). It’s up to you to check this with the overseas scheme or your UK pension provider or adviser.
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If it’s not a QROPS, your UK pension scheme may refuse to make the transfer, or you’ll have to pay at least 40% tax on the transfer.
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Tax when you transfer to a QROPS
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Whether you pay tax depends on where the QROPS you transfer to is based. It’s your responsibility to find out where this is.
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You do not have to pay any tax if you asked for a transfer to a QROPS before 9 March 2017.
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You usually do not pay tax if you transfer to a QROPS provided by your employer. Check with the scheme to find out.
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You transfer to a QROPS based in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Gibraltar
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You pay 25% tax if you either:
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live outside the UK, Gibraltar or the EEA
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move to live outside the UK, Gibraltar or the EEA within 5 years
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Otherwise you do not pay tax.
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You can get tax refunded if you move to the UK, Gibraltar or an EEA country within 5 years of the transfer. To claim, tell your UK scheme’s administrator and your overseas scheme manager you’ve moved using form APSS 241. They’ll put the tax refund back into the pension it was taken from.
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You transfer to a QROPS based outside the UK, Gibraltar or the EEA
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You do not have to pay tax if you live in the country your QROPS is based in. Otherwise you’ll have to pay 25% tax.
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If you move countries within 5 years of the transfer, fill in form APSS 241 and give it to your scheme administrator. You’ll:
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get a refund if you’ve moved to the country your QROPS is based in
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have to pay 25% tax on your transfer if you’ve moved away from the country your QROPS is based in
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How to transfer
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Form APSS 263 tells you what information you’ll need to provide before making a transfer.
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Download and fill in the form and give it to your UK pension scheme administrator.
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Your transfer will be taxed at 25% if you do not provide all the information the form asks for within 60 days of requesting the transfer.
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If you’re under 75, your UK pension scheme administrator will work out what percentage of your lifetime allowance is used by the transfer.
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They’ll tell you if the amount you’re transferring is more than your allowance and if you’ll be taxed on it.
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Payments from an overseas pension
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You may have to pay UK tax on some payments from your overseas scheme. This depends on when you were a UK resident.
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About workplace pensions
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A workplace pension is a way of saving for your retirement that’s arranged by your employer.
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Some workplace pensions are called ‘occupational’, ‘works’, ‘company’ or ‘work-based’ pensions.
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How they work
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A percentage of your pay is put into the pension scheme automatically every payday.
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In most cases, your employer also adds money into the pension scheme for you. You may also get tax relief from the government.
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Joining a workplace pension
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All employers must provide a workplace pension scheme. This is called ‘automatic enrolment’.
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Your employer must automatically enrol you into a pension scheme and make contributions to your pension if all of the following apply:
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you’re classed as a ‘worker’
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you’re aged between 22 and State Pension age
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you earn at least £10,000 per year
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you usually (‘ordinarily’) work in the UK (read the detailed guidance if you’re not sure)
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When your employer does not have to automatically enrol you
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Your employer usually does not have to automatically enrol you if you do not meet the previous criteria or if any of the following apply:
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you’ve already given notice to your employer that you’re leaving your job, or they’ve given you notice
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you have evidence of your lifetime allowance protection (for example, a certificate from HMRC)
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you’ve already taken a pension that meets the automatic enrolment rules and your employer arranged it
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you get a one-off payment from a workplace pension scheme that’s closed (a ‘winding up lump sum’), and then leave and rejoin the same job within 12 months of getting the payment
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more than 12 months before your staging date, you left (‘opted out’) of a pension arranged through your employer
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you’re from an EU member state and are in a EU cross-border pension scheme
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you’re in a limited liability partnership
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you’re a director without an employment contract and employ at least one other person in your company
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You can usually still join their pension if you want to. Your employer cannot refuse.
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If your income is low
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Your employer does not have to contribute to your pension if you earn these amounts or less:
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£520 a month
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£120 a week
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£480 over 4 weeks
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What happens when you’re automatically enrolled
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Your employer must write to you when you’ve been automatically enrolled into their workplace pension scheme. They must tell you:
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the date they added you to the pension scheme
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the type of pension scheme and who runs it
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how much they’ll contribute and how much you’ll have to pay in
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how to leave the scheme, if you want to
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how tax relief applies to you
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Delaying your enrolment date
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Your employer can delay the date they must enrol you into a pension scheme by up to 3 months.
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In some cases they may be able to delay longer if they’ve chosen either:
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a ‘defined benefit’ pension
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a ‘hybrid’ pension (a mixture of defined benefit and defined contribution pensions) that allows you to take a defined benefit pension
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Your employer must:
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tell you about the delay in writing
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let you join in the meantime if you ask to
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What your employer cannot do
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Your employer cannot:
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unfairly dismiss or discriminate against you for being in a workplace pension scheme
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encourage or force you to opt out
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What you, your employer and the government pay
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The amount you and your employer pay towards the pension depends on:
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what type of workplace pension scheme you’re in
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whether you’ve been automatically enrolled in a workplace pension or you’ve joined one voluntarily (‘opted in’)
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Use the Money Advice Service’s contributions calculator to work out how much you and your employer will put in.
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Tax relief
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The government will usually add money to your workplace pension in the form of tax relief if both of the following apply:
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you pay Income Tax
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you pay into a personal pension or workplace pension
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Even if you do not pay Income Tax, you’ll still get an additional payment if your pension scheme uses ‘relief at source’ to add money to your pension pot.
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If you’ve been automatically enrolled
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You and your employer must pay a percentage of your earnings into your workplace pension scheme.
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How much you pay and what counts as earnings depend on the pension scheme your employer has chosen. Ask your employer about your pension scheme rules.
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In most automatic enrolment schemes, you’ll make contributions based on your total earnings between £6,240 and £50,270 a year before tax. Your total earnings include:
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salary or wages
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bonuses and commission
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overtime
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statutory sick pay
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statutory maternity, paternity or adoption pay
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Workplace pension contributions
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| The minimum your employer pays | You pay | Total minimum contribution
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From April 2019 | 3% | 5% | 8%
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