• Auto Enrolment pensions

    We have a new employee, aged 21 who earns over the £833 per month. Being 21, he is Non-eligible in terms of auto-enrolment pensions, however, when processing the payroll, Sage has automatically deducted pension contributions from him, seemingly ignoring…
  • Pension Assessment update

    If an employee has multiple pension scheme set against their record - the Pension assessment shows the pension still - at present, if there is more than one it cant cope and even though deductions show on the payslip - they aren't showing on the assessment…
  • Qualifying earnings for pensions

    Hi, Can you shed any light on how Sage 50 uses Qualifying Earnings for pension purposes please? We are finding that Pensionable Earnings figures for clients who have pension schemes set up to calculate contributions on the Qualifying Earnings-based…
  • Pension Data Resend?

    Hi everyone, I have recently taken over our weekly Payroll role temporarily whilst we await a new member of staff. I normally only do holiday cover but my colleague has suddenly left the business. They have obviously had an issue from week 36 (7th Dec…
  • Payroll Reports are incorrect

    My payroll reports are not matching what actually happened. I have employees with first month of pension contribution that show on there payslip but not on the reports. The reports show zero pension contribution for two employees. Has anyone seen this…
  • Import report to include updating Annual Pensionable pay and Effective from date

    Within the Pensions tab for the Annual Pensionable pay and Effective date to have an import report where these fields can be updated globally. At present these have to be done individually and when there are global changes ie annual pay global increase…
  • Pension schemes data

    would be good if there was an excel spreadsheet to be able to import Annual Pensionable Salary and Effective From under employees records: Pensions/Manage schemes, as this information is provided on a pension report and not all pay elements are pensionable…
  • Pension Contributions Split

    Our biggest difficulty with Sage 50 payroll is that in our line of work, we have to do a lot of reporting to the Local Government Pension Scheme and a lot of the staff who we pay have multiple job roles for the same employer. For LGPS purposes, those…
  • Salary Sacrifice Pension schemes

    We currently have a standard autoenrollment scheme set up. We have now offered a salary sacrifice scheme for our employees if they wish to join. Can I please get some advice on how to set up this additional scheme - our pension adviser said 'its just…
  • Pension cyclical re-enrolment process

    My cyclical re-enrolment date is 1/11/19. I run payroll once a month on 20th of the month each month (or closest working day). Can I go ahead and run pension assessment now and complete my re-enrolment ahead of running my payroll at the end of this…
  • AE pension contributions being deducted before tax calculation on non salary sacrifice pension scheme

    I have a client whose AE pension contributions started on 1st April 2016 and I have noticed that the tax on the wages is being calculated after the pension contributions have been deducted. I am not sure that this is correct as it is not a salary sacrifice…
  • AE PAPDIS report

    Can anyone tell me why the AE PAPDIS v1 report appears to deduct £112.00 from each employees Pensionable Earnings? Thank you
  • How does Auto Enrolment pension deductions show in Sage Accounts? And why is payslip showing 2 deductions for the member of staff?

    I reached my staging date (1st April) and have 2 issues: 1) The staff payslip shows 2 deductions as below. This doesn't look right to me, surely I as the employer have to pay the Er figure listed on paylsip. There is no subsequent credit on it so staff…
  • New Starter - First Job as a Trainee

    I am starting a new Trainee today. It is his first job since leaving school and he is 17. As he doesnt have a P45 how do I set him up for tax? I take it he is not elligable for a pension? Can anyone just remind me of how to set this new starter up on…
  • Pension updates mid month

    Can I update employees pensions outside of when I run payroll? For example, can I add opt out dates or do I need to wait until the end of the month when I run payroll? Also, do I upload the signed opt out forms via Sage or do I need to do via NOW Pensions…
  • new pension scheme has just set up by the client but payroll scheme has been running a year, how is best to process this ?

    new pension scheme has just set up by the client but payroll scheme has been running a year, how is best to process this ?
  • Set up Pension Data Exchange

    Hi I am trying to set up Pension Data Exchange so that I can submit to Peoples Pension, I currently manually upload the file. However when I go into Company - Pension module Settings - there is no option for me to set up Pension Data Exchange - why…