On 13 March 2025, the Pensions Dashboard Programme (PDP) published an updated set of standards.
Background
The PDP, as part of the Money and Pensions Service, has powers under the Pension Schemes Act 2021 and the Pensions Dashboards Regulations 2022 to set standards relating to the practical operation of pensions dashboards services and the digital infrastructure needed to support them. These standards will provide the rules and controls that will facilitate the ongoing connection to the pensions dashboards ecosystem.
Updated standards
The following standards have been updated:
- Data standards, which set out the data formatting requirements that pension providers and schemes must follow when returning pensions data.
- Technical standards, which pension providers and schemes will use to interface with the central technical architecture and/or each other.
- Code of connection, which will combine the required security, service and operational standards, which ecosystem participants must adhere to.
- Reporting standards, which set out requirements on pension providers and schemes for generating, recording and reporting operational information.