Data quality is pensions dashboard's 'weakest link'

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The quality and availability of data is the "weakest link" for the pensions dashboard, according to the Society of Pension Professionals (SPP).

The firm's survey on the pensions dashboard project revealed almost half (45%) of its members see data quality as the greatest difficulty facing the dashboard. This was followed by it having enough functionality to be useful (19%). Other respondents believed the biggest challenges are technical and security issues, and expectations of politicians, media and members, at 13% and 11% respectively. Of the dashboard project, the SPP said it "fully supports the concept", but revealed it has "concerns about how it will play out and the risks to the project". A clear consensus in the resul...

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