Enrolling your workers into NEST

NEST is designed to make it straightforward to enrol your workers, whether you’re a large or small organisation.

Who do you need to enrol?

You will need to enrol most workers into a workplace pension scheme that meets certain legal standards. This will begin in 2012 for larger organisations with medium and smaller employers being affected in the following few years.

Depending on their age and earnings, you will need to enrol some of your workers automatically. You will also need to enrol other types of workers if they ask to be enrolled.

What information do you need?

When you enrol a worker, you’ll need to have the following information about them:

• their name, date of birth and gender
• their postal address
• their work or personal email addresses if you have them
• their National Insurance number if you have it
• the date when they will start contributing to NEST

If the worker does not have a National insurance number you can still enrol them but you will need to tell us their National insurance number as soon as you receive it.