Hundreds of pension providers and schemes and 20 million pension records, as well as the State Pension, are now connected to the pensions dashboards ecosystem.
This has been confirmed by the Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP), which has also outlined its approach to consumer testing with the state-provided MoneyHelper Pensions Dashboard. Alongside this, the Minister for Pensions, Torsten Bell MP, has announced that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will give six months’ notice before the launch of the dashboard.
Connection has been ongoing with a group of around 20 industry participants who are connecting directly to the ecosystem, with the first having finished the process in March 2025. A majority of these organisations have completed the important stage of integration testing.
Since April, pension providers and schemes have started phased connection in line with DWP guidance. PDP remains confident that all providers and schemes in scope for dashboards will have been able to connect by the legal deadline of 31st October 2026.
Testing, which will allow the MoneyHelper Pensions Dashboard to be refined, is due to start from this summer.
Oliver Morley, MaPS CEO, said: “Connecting over 20 million pension records and outlining our approach to consumer testing demonstrate our progress since the last pensions dashboards town hall event in December 2024. It was a pleasure to be able to be at a dashboards town hall for the second time, where I was able to outline how our MoneyHelper dashboard will contribute to our goal of improving people’s financial wellbeing. Thank you to everyone who attended, and for the ongoing commitment to delivering dashboards to help improve retirement planning.”
