Where now for the pensions dashboard?

'Cost and complexity woefully underestimated'

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Enormous amounts of work are still required in order to deliver the pensions dashboard. Ros Altmann looks at the issues involved and urges politicians not to abandon the idea of an independent public dashboard.

There has been much excitement about the prospect of an online pensions dashboard helping pension savers to see all their pensions in one place to enhance their retirement, yet despite the government's promised delivery by 2019, the serially delayed project remains a long way off. Acknowledging its timeline would not be met, the government tasked the Money and Pensions Service (MAPS) with the pensions dashboard delivery project last year, leading to the formation of a group now known as the Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP). Chaired by the much-respected Pensions Policy Institute head,...

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