Pensions Dashboards Update – October 2025

As at the end of August the Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) reported that 13 industry participants including the State Pension had completed their connection journey with 19 in total having successfully passed through integration testing. 

Over 50 million pension records from workplace and personal pensions (over two thirds of the pension records in scope for dashboards) are now connected to the dashboard, along with tens of millions of state pension records.  State pension information will be shown for users below state pension age – further details are available here. 

The first stage of testing (with industry experts to validate data accuracy) has begun.  Chris Curry, the Principal of the PDP has written about his own personal experience here.

At the end of August the Pensions Regulator (TPR) launched a pensions dashboards connection campaign with the core messages being:

• Quality data is the foundation of dashboards
• Getting dashboards-ready is a team effort
• Connecting members to dashboards will fundamentally change retirement planning
• Trustees should act now to ensure their schemes are dashboards-ready

TPR (and the FCA) have confirmed that there will be no regulatory intervention for schemes unable to connect in line with their ‘connect by’ date solely because their integrated service provider (ISP) is not yet connected to the central digital architecture due to PDP scheduling. Provided a scheme is expecting to connect as soon as its ISP connection is available, TPR has confirmed there is no need to complete the change of connect by date form.

On 17 September the Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) published new guidance on standardising the use of “warning” and “unavailable” codes in relation to when accurate value data can’t be displayed immediately and informing savers about potential delays – the aim is to ensure consistency in saver experience and minimise confusion.

With just over a year to go until the final connection deadline of 31 October 2026, many medium and smaller schemes (with fewer than 1,500 relevant members) will now be working to connect in line with the staged timetable. 

If you would like any advice or assistance with dashboards compliance, we are very well placed to help. Please contact Andy Prater, Susannah Young or your usual Burges Salmon Pensions and Lifetime Savings team contact.