Legislation will have to be brought in to force reluctant providers to contribute the necessary data to the forthcoming pensions dashboard, Aviva head of retirement policy John Lawson has argued.
It was announced yesterday that, despite the original deadline of 2019, a prototype pensions dashboard will be up and running by spring 2017 through the collaboration of 11 providers, including Aviva. Lawson (pictured) said: "Legislation ultimately will be required because there will be some pension providers who won't want to provide the data. There will be some schemes that are on paper and excel spreadsheets - that's true of some schemes. "They're administered in a very rudimentary way. So those schemes may need to be, at a later date, pushed a bit in the right direction." He a...
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