TPR identifies data debt as key challenge for pensions dashboards

Published: July 30, 2025

The Pensions Regulator has identified data quality as a key challenge for pensions dashboards. In a blogpost, Julian Lyne, Interim Executive Director of Market Oversight at The Pensions Regulator, noted that while 80% of schemes are on track to connect to the central digital architecture by their connect-by date, many need to address accumulated “data debt” from years of underinvestment.

The dashboards programme, which Department of Work and Pensions data shows 8 in 10 savers want to use, will transform savers’ engagement with retirement savings. However, TPR’s research reveals only half of schemes offering defined benefit pensions had recent DB value data for all members, while one in four schemes hold some data in non-digital form.

The regulator has been targeting schemes based on data scores since October and will meet with the largest schemes to review their dashboard preparations. Lyne noted that addressing data issues offers benefits beyond compliance, describing good data as a pension “superpower”.

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