Low-paid women workers are missing out on workplace pensions, warns TUC

date: 31 July 2013

embargo: For immediate release

Commenting on figures published today (Wednesday) by the Pensions Regulator, which show that 1.7 million employees have not qualified for automatic enrolment into a workplace pension, TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said:

'Automatic enrolment is proving a big success, but it does not apply to low-paid workers. This government has consistently raised the size of the wage packet that triggers auto-enrolment, with the inevitable result - that the Pensions Regulator confirms today - that many women have been left out of what should be a pensions revolution.

'Ministers were wrong to link the earnings trigger to the income tax personal allowance, as this means that every time it goes up more women lose out on a pension.'

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