Pensions Dashboards Programme blog updates on connection progress and process improvements

In its latest blog published on August 27, 2025, the Pensions Dashboards Programme highlights the role played by industry participants in helping shape and improve the process, and looks ahead as more pension providers and schemes prepare to connect. 

With a little over a year to go until the connection deadline of October 31, 2026, the blog states that over 40 million pension records from workplace and personal pensions, (over half of the total records) are currently connected. In addition, tens of millions of state pension records are connected too. However, the October 2026 date is only the schemes’ connection deadline. The dashboards are unlikely to be available to individual consumers until sometime in 2027.

In a further blog published on September 3, 2025, the Pensions Dashboards Programme confirms more information and details about the state pension connection. This will be the first time that people will be able to see their personal, workplace and state pension information in one place. The blog outlines the information that will be shown on the pensions dashboards, including the year at which an individual can claim the state pension and an estimated forecast for those under state pension age. The blog also states that the state pension information on pensions dashboards will be based on current legislation and updated to include any changes.