Under a year to go to pensions dashboards connection deadline

There are now less than 12 months until the legal deadline for pension providers and schemes to connect to the pensions dashboards ecosystem.

The Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) has reminded providers and schemes in scope of legislation that they are required to have completed connection by 31 October 2026. This includes organisations with 100 or more members which have not otherwise been allowed to defer their connection beyond this date.

The first pension provider completed this process in April of this year. The number of workplace and personal pension records connected is now more than 60 million, alongside tens of millions more State Pension records. This represents three-quarters of the records in scope.

Any pension provider or scheme due to connect that has any queries or needs assistance should get in touch with PDP as soon as possible. Providers and schemes must have regard to the timetable in the Department for Work and Pensions’s connection guidance when deciding when to connect.

The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), which oversees PDP, has begun consumer testing of the dashboard it is developing, which will be the first available for public use.

Chris Curry, PDP's Principal, said:

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