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ARTICLE · 08 APRIL 2025

The Pensions Brief: April 2025

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The following dashboards standards have been finalised and have received ministerial approval...

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Pensions dashboards – finalised standards and guidance

The following dashboards standards have been finalised and have received ministerial approval:

  • Code of connection – This sets out how schemes and dashboard providers are to connect to the dashboards ecosystem and what they need to do to remain connected.
  • Technical standards – These provide a common set of connection rules for pension providers and schemes, determining how parties are to interact and communicate with the dashboards ecosystem's central digital architecture and each other.
  • Data standards – These set out the data formatting requirements that schemes must follow when returning pensions data in response to view requests.

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