thousands wibble and wobble on the dashboard’s first day

Wow! The millennium bridge was opened to the public all at once (me,my mum and 2 year old son were there on the day). Nobody had worked out what would happen if they went on the bridge at the same time. It wibbled and it wobbled and most people refer to the “millennium” bridge as “wibbly wobbly”.

Work on a dashboard started a couple of years into the millennium and we’ve just completed the first quarter of its first century. We haven’t got a pension dashboard yet but we’re promised it will be completed by this October (yes I know that October 2026 is this year- odd isn’t it!).

We don’t know how long after launch the dashboard will be complete before it is ready to use, I think of the millennium bridge and suspect it will be a few months being tested by increasing numbers. We don’t want a wibbly wobbly dashboard.

Here is Chris Curry with a very long dashboard update.

I wanted to quote some long sections of the report released but I crashed my PC trying to load it up. I will not mess with the dashboard.

I have seen big pension projects work if they are done in stages. Our auto-enrolment project took nearly 6 years from first to last employer starting to deduct contributions into workplace pensions. Today in the Netherlands, the first employers adopt the new pension structures, the last employers will move in 2028.

The first day of 2026 is a great day to recognise that like the millennium bridge, the dashboard will launch to everyone at a day when the country is ready. That determination is with the Pensions Minister.

Many large schemes are yet to be available to those testing themselves . That’s an extension of the staging principles where schemes join at the speed that is safe for them

My friend Tim has managed to put his master trust’s data launch with the dashboard to being launched in May.  Quite right too, he has been moving his data to a new database and he knows that haste is not a good idea.

The slice below shows just how slow the connection has been.

In the early hours of 2026 I wish Chris and the massive numbers whose lives are devoted to setting the dashboard up and opening it to the public good fortune.

The chances are that we will not see the dashboard open to the public this year but we might. But I’d rather see a dashboard that worked than a wibbly wobbly one!

Here is the latest again on progress on the dashboard

a clearer picture