This event took place on the 28^th March with a great turn out from all sectors. The aim was to provide a forum to discuss the government’s draft legislation on auto-enrolment to a new state-run pension scheme for workers who are not already members of an occupational or private pension scheme. At present, very large sections of our population will be without adequate incomes in retirement unless further provision is made for good supplementary pensions.

You can access the slide presentation here
Please watch the event here if you missed it

TASC, in Partnership with AVIVA, are now offering Financial Resilience Training to charity staff across Ireland. Financial Resilience Training is a free online training that helps staff to support service users to improve their financial resilience and embed FRT into the core work of their organisation.

Financial resilience is the ability of individuals or households to resist, cope with and recover from negative events that impact their finances. Some of the most important areas of financial resilience include day-to-day money management, helping people to live within their means and keeping track of their spending, planning future needs and active saving, choosing and using appropriate financial products and making informed financial decisions.

For more information, please visit www.FRT.ie or contact Conor at chenry@tasc.ie

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