PDP publishes updated pension dashboard standards

Will consult on draft design standards this winter

Holly Roach
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The Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) has published updated standards for connecting to the pensions dashboards ecosystem.

PDP's updated version of the standards, which follow feedback from its summer consultation, set out mandatory requirements that providers and schemes, and potential dashboard providers, will need to follow. The standards cover the technical and operational detail that underpin dashboards legislation. They also set out data formatting requirements, and detail security, service and reporting duties. The rules will come into force following approval from the secretary of state for work and pensions. The PDP has also confirmed it will consult on draft design standards this winter, befo...

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