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Pensions dashboards on track to meet 2023 launch date


By Jack Gray

Pensions dashboards are “on track” to meet the target of being available to savers from 2023, according to the Pensions Dashboards Programme’s (PDP) third progress update report.

The report stated that progress was keeping pace with the indicative timeline published by the PDP in October, whereby staged onboarding and dashboard availability would commence in 2023


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