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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rupert Jones

YOU WONT BELIEVE: More people leaving workplace pension schemes tuc warns | Mind Blowing Facts

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Opting out of workplace schemes and giving up employers’ pension contributions is a ‘voluntary pay cut’, investment advisers warn. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Growing numbers of workers are cutting their workplace pension contributions or opting out of schemes entirely because they cannot afford payments – prompting calls for employers to increase the amounts they pay in.

With real wages falling and bills rising sharply, people across the country are looking for ways to reduce spending and supplement their incomes, and the TUC said it was hearing about staff in both the public and private sectors who had concluded they could not afford to save for retirement at the moment.

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