Pension dashboards ecosystem connects hundreds of providers, millions of records

Source: Pensions Dashboards Programme

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.

Minister for Pensions, Torsten Bell MP

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.

These updates came at the latest dashboards town hall event on 9 July 2025 hosted by the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS). Industry attendees heard a range of presentations from PDP and the MoneyHelper Pensions Dashboard team, the Minister, The Pensions Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority.

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 31 October 2026.

Elsewhere at the town hall event, attendees were presented with MaPS’ approach to consumer testing with its dashboard. This testing, which will allow the MoneyHelper Pensions Dashboard to be refined, is due to start from this summer.

The Minister, who opened the event, took the opportunity to announce the technical connection of the State Pension, and reiterated the Government’s commitment to private sector dashboards. While the decision has been taken to prioritise the MoneyHelper Pensions Dashboard, it remains the intention to enable private organisations to build and operate their own dashboards.

Oliver Morley, chief executive officer of MaPS, 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.”

Geraldine Brassett, senior consultant at WTW, added: “I was really pleased to hear about the progress with industry connection to the pensions dashboards ecosystem and the preparations for consumer testing of the MoneyHelper dashboard. There is a strong sense that everyone is pulling together to make dashboards happen and that we are really seeing forward movement.”

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