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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Shaw

More than a third of people ‘fail to ask about pension when moving jobs’

Workplace pensions were ranked after salary and flexible working when people were asked which benefits most influenced whether they accepted a role, in a survey for M&G (Dominic Lipinski/PA Archive) - (PA Archive)

More than a third (36%) of people who started a new job within the past five years did not ask about their new firm’s pension scheme at any stage of the hiring process, a survey has found.

Around a fifth waited until they received a job offer to ask about the company pension scheme, while 16% waited until after they had accepted the role to make inquiries, according to savings and investments firm M&G.

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