10 | Pensions
First schemes connect to the Pensions Dashboard Programme
30 April 2025 marked the first staged deadline for larger occupational schemes with more than 20,000 members to connect to the pensions dashboards. This impacts all companies operating a final salary pension scheme in particular – with the need to make sure that the dashboard obligations are complied with.
Horizon scanning
What to do about the DB pension surplus?
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed in a recent press release that funding levels in the defined benefit (DB) pension sector have reached a record high, resulting in the value of scheme assets now exceeding the benefits to members.
Recent developments