Youngest staff to be given UK workplace pensions as qualifying age is cut

Those aged between 18 and 21 will be automatically enrolled in workplace schemes amid Tory worries about young voters’ prospectsYoung people aged 18 to 21 who are earning £10,000 or more will have to be automatically enrolled into workplace pension schemes for the first time to help them save for retirement, under plans to be announced by ministers .The extension of automatic enrolment to teenagers and those in their early 20s is seen as increasingly necessary as life expectancy grow