Doomed dashboard begs question - can this government get anything right?

Questions raised over govt role in dashboard

Hannah Godfrey
clock • 4 min read

The government could now pull out of the pensions dashboard project - a disappointing turn of events, writes Hannah Godfrey, though not one that should come as a great surprise given its patchy record on pension policy

My prognosis is simple - the dashboard is all but doomed. The government is about to take a very good idea and flush it down the toilet. I have not had any inside information - and I honestly hope I am wrong - but watching pensions and financial inclusion minister Guy Opperman squirm in the face of Work and Pensions Committee questions as to whether rumours of the government pulling out of the project were true was hardly reassuring. To put it mildly, the news is disappointing. As a child of technology, a big part of me cannot believe a pensions dashboard does not already exist. It fe...

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