More than 12,000 Offaly workers auto-enrolled in Government pension scheme in 2026

A total of 12,349 workers have been auto-enrolled in the Government’s new auto-enrolment (AE) pension scheme, ‘My Future Fund’, since the beginning of 2026.

That's according to new Government figures which provide a county-by-county breakdown of the number of workers enrolled to AE since it was launched at the start of the year

So far, over 763,000 employees have been automatically enrolled across the country since 'My Future Fund' launched at the start of the year, with their first contribution to the scheme made in January and their second contribution made in February.

Pension experts at Ask Acorn, a nationwide network of financial advisers, are urging workers that have been signed up to AE to carefully weigh up the scheme and decide if it’s going to form part of their long-term plans or not, reminding these workers that they are still within the opt-out window - which is between six months and eight months of the date they were automatically enrolled - if they wish to leave the scheme.

For any worker enrolled on January 1, this means that their opt-out window runs until between June and August.

The pension experts however are warning that any decision to opt out should not be taken lightly, particularly if AE is a worker’s only opportunity to join a pension scheme.