Standards

31st January 2022 | Michael Wheeler

Publication of DWP consultation into regulations for pensions dashboards, plus PDP standards

Today, January 31 2022, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published its consultation, Pensions Dashboards: consultation on the draft Pensions Dashboards Regulations 2022. This is a significant step towards the realisation of pensions dashboards, as the consultation sets out the draft regulations on the key duties for occupational pension schemes to participate in pensions dashboards. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will consult on parallel proposals for personal pension providers within the next few weeks.

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31st January 2022 | Michael Wheeler

Code of connection

The code of connection will combine the required security and operational standards, which ecosystem participants will have to adhere to. It will provide a standard of expected behaviour to protect all ecosystem participants.  

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31st January 2022 | Michael Wheeler

Data standards

To provide data and dashboard providers with the information they will require to respond to the Pensions Dashboards: consultation on the draft Pensions Dashboards Regulations 2022, the Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) has updated its Data usage guide. This is not the final data standards but should provide data and dashboard providers with sufficient information to respond effectively to the consultation.

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31st January 2022 | Michael Wheeler

Reporting standards

This set of standards will provide the reporting requirements to connect to the pensions dashboards ecosystem. 

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31st January 2022 | Michael Wheeler

Design standards

The design standards provide information to dashboard providers, as well as data providers, about required layouts, content elements, messaging and user journeys, to ensure a consistently positive experience for users, regardless of which dashboard an individual chooses.

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31st January 2022 | Michael Wheeler

Technical standards

The technical standards are what data and dashboard providers will use to interface with the central technical architecture and/or each other. They will define the open APIs for find and view, PDP’s profile of the user managed access (UMA) protocol and the format of the pension identifier (PeI).  

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15th December 2020 | Michael Wheeler

Data standards guide

The Pensions Dashboards Programme data standards guide contains the detailed information on the data elements that will be required for initial dashboards. Aimed at the technical audience responsible for working on pensions data, its contents should ensure that providers can prepare their date for onboarding to pensions dashboards.

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