UK pension re-enrolment is now automated and auditable
UK workplace pension law requires employers to periodically re-enrol eligible employees who have previously opted out — typically every three years. It's a legal obligation, not a discretionary process. And for most employers, it's been a manual one: someone tracks the three-year cycle, identifies who needs re-enrolling, runs the process by hand, and hopes nothing falls through the gap.
For large employers with thousands of employees at different points in their pension history, running that process reliably without automation is genuinely difficult. When it goes wrong, the consequences are regulatory.
Pension re-enrolment now runs automatically, on a schedule, with a full audit trail
Ben now supports configurable automatic re-enrolment rules for any benefit — built specifically to handle UK pension re-enrolment requirements. Admins configure the rule once: the trigger condition, the re-enrolment cycle, and the employee notification to send. Ben evaluates eligible employees on an ongoing schedule, re-enrols them automatically using the same pricing and contribution logic as a standard enrolment, and logs every outcome.
Each employee who is re-enrolled receives an email notification explaining what's happened and what their options are. Employees who have a legitimate reason to be permanently excluded — such as membership of an alternative pension scheme — can be flagged individually in the ECC or via an HRIS mapping, so they're skipped automatically in future cycles.
Every run produces a full audit record: who was evaluated, who was re-enrolled, what the outcome was, and why. For compliance purposes, that record is there without anyone having to create it.
Re-enrolment that doesn't depend on someone remembering
For employers who've been tracking pension re-enrolment in a spreadsheet or relying on a manual calendar reminder, this removes the process risk entirely. The obligation runs on time, every time, with evidence.
