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The PMI’s Dashboards Industry Guide 2023 Published: 5 October 2023 Emailed: 11 October 2023

The Pensions Management Institute (PMI) has released the ‘ Dashboards Industry Guide 2023 ’. The guide aims to help you transform retirement planning and get you ready for the latest developments with the Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP). The Pensions Dashboards, aimed to consolidate all accrued pension savings into one online portal, and to simplify retirement planning for generations to come. This dashboard industry guide will give you breakdown of what to expect. With this guide you can discover how the Pensions Dashboards will simplify your pension journey.

Director of Policy & External Affairs PMI, Tim Middleton, said:

‘‘Harnessing ground -breaking technology is never easy, but the ambitious scope of the dashboard massively outweighs the problems that dogged the early stages of its development. The years of hard work are creating a service that will be of enormous benefit for decades to come. We are poised at the beginning of a new era for pension provision in the UK that will remove so many of the problems that have disrupted retirement planning in the past.’’

Download and access the guide, here.

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DWP statement indicates start of pensions dashboards connections Published: 26 March 2024 Emailed: 27 March 2024

In a step towards the successful roll out of pensions dashboards, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released a statement providing details on progress being made this year.

They state:

“ Subject to satisfactory testing, the programme plans to begin the process of connecting the organisations building a direct connection, including DWP State Pension, from August 2024. Connection testing will then continue to ensure readiness to support wide r industry connection from early 2025.”

This will start the path for approximately 3,000 pension schemes in scope to be connected by the current deadline of 31 October 2026. The first selection of large employers is expected to have connected by the end of April 2025.

The full timeline and guidance has also released along with the statement, providing background and additional information to support the proposed time scales.

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