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<p>Since 2012, approximately 9,000 eligible jobholders have been automatically enrolled
in Mansfield constituency.</p><p>Automatic enrolment is a great success story. Over
9.8 million employees have been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension, and
more than 1.3 million employers have met their duties as at the end of July 2018.</p><p>Nationally
in 2012, the percentage of eligible private sector workers participating in a workplace
pension hit a low of 42 per cent. This figure has now risen to 81 per cent. This marks
a 39 percentage point increase in pension participation of this group since the introduction
of Automatic Enrolment.</p><p> </p><p>Young people have embraced pension saving, with
77 per cent of eligible 22 to 29 year olds working in the private sector now enrolled
in a workplace pension. For context, only 24 per cent of this group were enrolled
into a workplace pension in 2012, before the introduction of Automatic Enrolment.
And the proportion of people earning between £10,000 and £20,000 participating in
a workplace pension has grown dramatically, from a low of under 20 per cent in 2012
to over 70 per cent today.</p>
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