Pensions dashboards: 20 plus years in the making and still not there yet

Discussions began as long ago as 2002 – how much more time do we need?

Jonathan Stapleton
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Rome wasn't built in a day and it very much seems that pensions dashboards will take quite a long time to be built also, Jonathan Stapleton writes...

Yesterday's (8 June) statement by pensions minister Laura Trott said more time was needed to deliver a complex build, and for the pensions industry to help facilitate the successful connection of a wide range of different IT systems to the dashboards digital architecture. Trott added that, going forward, the government would not include a staging timeline in legislation - setting an overall connection deadline of 31 October 2026 instead. She noted, however, this deadline would not be the dashboards available point - the point at which dashboards will be accessible to the public - whic...

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