Useful links and contacts
A guide to combined pension forecasts
This guide is for employers with an occupational scheme and pension scheme providers. It tells you what combined pension forecasts are and how to arrange them for your staff.
Department for Work and Pensions
Find out more about how the Department for Work and Pensions works with employers through the Department for Work and Pensions website.
HM Revenue & Customs
This website provides information and advice to help you work out and deduct tax and National Insurance Contributions.
It also provides a year planner to see important events and dates for each month and information about a range of topics such as taking on a new employee, maternity leave, and starting and finishing a tax year.
You can also call the Inland Revenue Employer's Helpline on: 0845 7 143 143. The helpline is open Monday to Friday from 8.00am to 8.00pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 8.00am to 5.00pm. A textphone number for people with hearing or speech difficulties is available on 0845 602 1380.
Jobcentre Plus
Jobcentre Plus will help you find the people you need to fill your vacancies and provide you with useful information about recruitment and redundancies
Stakeholder pension schemes legislation
The Office of Public Sector Information provides online access to legislation such as
Stakeholder pensions - A guide for employers
This guide, available through our resource centre, explains what stakeholder pensions are and whether you are affected by the stakeholder pension laws.
The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
This department provides information and services to promote enterprise, innovation and increased productivity, encouraging successful business start-ups, and by increasing the capacity of business, including SMEs, to grow, to invest, to develop skills, to adopt best practice. It provides help with trade union, environmental matters, European matters and many other things.
Business Link
The Business Link website provides straightforward business information and access to a wide range of business support.
The Pensions Advisory Service
The Pensions Advisory Service, is an independent non-profit organisation that provides free information, advice and guidance on the whole spectrum of pensions covering State, company, personal and stakeholder schemes.
The Pensions Advisory Service operate an email and telephone helpline. To access the email form please visit their website. Their telephone helpline number is 0845 601 2923.
The register of stakeholder pension schemes
This is a list of approved and registered stakeholder pension schemes published by the Pensions Regulator, from which employers can select a scheme.
Looking for consultations?
Consultations on draft regulations and changes to policy are conducted through the resource centre on the Department for Work and Pensions website