It was suggested , I comment on the Ministerial press release that accompanied the grand unveiling of the DWP’s guidance setting out the connection timetable for auto-enrolment.
As this “guidance” itself has introduces nothing by way of “deadlines”, it has the legislative force of a stick of celery, it is neither a carrot or a stick, just an increasingly limp baton which it is hoped will replace the aforementioned articles
Here is the staging timetable in all its detail. But note, this is not an announcement about the dashboard availability point. This “marks the milestone (sic)” of when a scheme’s “relevant members” are inspectable through the dashboards portals. It does not mark the point when people whose details are being exposed, can expect to see their details.
Because no one will see anything until the Pension Minister points his big gun in the air and shouts “go”. This is the dashboard available point of DAP and of course it will mark the complete melt-down of the interweb as we go to our chosen dashboard (MaPS?) and give it a go!
Dashboard connection is being staged in an elaborate procession over 18 months. Are punters going to be staged in the same way? The only players not included in this timetable are occupational DC schemes with less than 100 lives and the state pension.
Can the minister give us an assurance that our state pension entitlement will be available on October 30th 2026 and that’s the backstop DAP? Or is he playing us?
I’d rather be staged than played. Come on Minister, give us a “dashboard available” point and a proper deadline for us to see all our pensions and pots in the same place.
Appendix – the “exposure” queue revealed.
You can see when your workplace and non-workplace pension is in the “exposure queue” here.
