The consultancy warns that retirement income shortfalls could hit companies hard by creating a demographic bottleneck in the workforce and driving stress-related drops in productivity.
Phase two of the testing process officially began this week, and MaPS has called on pension providers to spread the word among savers and scheme members to get them involved with the trials.
With the final few staging deadlines approaching, dashboard connections are top of the agenda for many small schemes. As PASA’s Maurice Titley explains, these will face some tricky challenges that larger schemes may not have had to navigate.
The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) should introduce “pensions dashboard health checks” to help savers understand their financial positions, according to a new report from the Social Market Foundation.

The Department for Work and Pensions has set out a series of connection deadlines for pension schemes and providers depending on size and type. The deadlines are at the end of each month until 31 October 2026, by which point all eligible pension schemes should be connected.
Nearly 30 UK pension schemes have significantly improved the accuracy of their member data after adopting digital data enrichment technology over the past year, according to Heka Global.
The ABI has welcomed a move from the Pensions Dashboards Programme aimed at encouraging private sector dashboard providers.
Archie Pritchett, an analyst at PensionPay, highlights a ‘delivery gap’ as the pensions industry focuses on ‘plumbing’ rather than the end products for consumers.
Speaking at the Pensions Expert Annual Conference on 26 November, TPR’s Nausicaa Delfas said the UK’s pensions system was “unfinished business”, with approximately 14.6 million people under-saving for retirement.
There is less than 12 months to go until the 31 October 2026 deadline, when all pension schemes and providers in scope must connect to the pensions dashboards Central Digital Architecture.
David Fairs, chair of the Pensions Administration Standards Association, explains why attitudes are changing towards admin and calls for trustees to shift focus from cost to service quality.
Taylor Brightwell-Smith joined the regulator this week from the Government Actuary’s Department to oversee TPR’s work on administration, pensions dashboards, and cybersecurity.
The UK’s biggest corporate defined benefit pension scheme has connected its 250,000 members to the pensions dashboards ecosystem, with just under a year to go until the government’s statutory connection deadline.