This website uses cookies. Find out more.

  • Contact
  • Client Login
Chase de Vere
Trustpilot
  • Services
    • Advice for you
    • Advice for your business
    • Partner With Us
    • Advice on Personal Injury Awards
    • Advice for Medical Professionals
    • Advice for Dental Professionals
  • About
  • Careers
  • Insights
  • Contact
0345 609 2002 Book Appointment

Advice for you

Advice for your business

Partner With Us


Advice on Personal Injury Awards

(Off-site link)

READ MORE
Advice for Medical Professionals

(Off-site link)

READ MORE
Advice for Dental Professionals

(Off-site link)

READ MORE
Back to Insights
News

Pension dashboard programme delayed

13 July 2023
  • Share

12 June 2023 was a day of procrastination for the new Pensions Dashboard Programme, with a new deadline set for 2026.

“[The Treasury] should challenge the industry to make a pensions dashboard available to consumers by 2019, bringing together industry and consumer representatives to help them set direction and drive progress.” So said the Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority in 2016, in the wake of the introduction of pensions flexibility and the replacement of the old state pension scheme the single tier new state pension.

The logic of the proposal was indisputable. Together, the reform of both state and private sector retirement provision, the 2012 launch of automatic enrolment for workplace pensions and changing employment patterns had created a need for a pensions dashboard. In theory, one central information dashboard would give individuals the opportunity to keep track of their various pension entitlements and understand what income they might receive when work ended.

However, government theory and government practice, especially when large IT projects are involved, rarely have much in common with each other. It was not until that 2019 date that the Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) was established by an arm of the Department for Work and Pensions. The PDP was charged with responsibility for “designing and creating the pensions dashboards ecosystem, which contains the digital architecture that will make dashboards work.”

The PDP has since presided over a series of delays. At the beginning of 2023, 31 August 2023 was meant to mark the first “connection deadline” for pension schemes to link to the dashboard. However, in March, a parliamentary statement revealed the target would not be met but gave no new date. Three months later, another parliamentary statement supplied the missing information – 31 October 2026.

With no apparent sense of irony, the statement said that “the government remains as committed as ever to making pensions dashboards a reality and we are ambitious about their delivery.” On the same day, the government also announced a delay to the deadline for filling gaps in national insurance contributions, although ironically that will still end 18 months before the dashboard deadline.

The unspoken message is clear – if you want to understand how pension arrangements fit together, non-governmental advice is essential.

The Financial Conduct Authority does not regulate tax or benefit advice.

  • Share

Related Insights

13 April 2023

Automatic enrolment and pension contribution reforms

A new government bill indicates that…

News
View Article
11 May 2023

2023/24 – the 23-month tax year?

If you are self-employed, the new…

News
View Article
08 June 2023

Will you be fueling the inheritance tax bonanza?

Recent data has revealed that inheritance…

News
View Article

TO FIND OUT HOW CHASE DE VERE CAN HELP YOU ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS, ARRANGE YOUR COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATION.

ARRANGE APPOINTMENT

Related Services

Advice for you

We offer our clients attentive, focused, financial guidance from highly qualified independent advisers located throughout the UK. Whether you’re saving for the future, enjoying your retirement or fu...

Learn more
JOIN OUR SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE TO RECEIVE:

EDUCATIONAL NEWS UPDATES & UPCOMING EVENTS

By signing up to our email subscription service we will send you regular emails with the latest insights from Chase de Vere. By signing up you are agreeing to our term and conditions that can be found here.

Chase de Vere
  • 0345 609 2002
  • client.services@chasedevere.co.uk
  • Home
  • About
  • Accessibility
  • Cookies
  • Gender Pay Gap Report
  • How to make a complaint
  • Insights
  • Modern Slavery Statement
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Linkedin

Disclaimer:

Investments can go up and down in value, so you could get back less than you put in.
The Financial Conduct Authority does not regulate cash flow planning, tax or estate planning.

© Copyright Chase de Vere / 2025