Pension Dashboard

The UK Pension Dashboard is one of the more significant pieces of pensions infrastructure being built this decade: a secure online service designed to let you see your State Pension, workplace pensions, and personal pensions together in one place, instead of checking each one separately. For anyone who's changed jobs a few times, or simply lost track of an old pension pot along the way, that's a genuinely useful thing to have once it's fully up and running.

It's important to understand what the dashboard will and won't do. It's built to show you information — estimated values, scheme details, and contact points — pulled together from schemes that have connected to it. It won't give you financial advice, and at least in its initial form, it won't let you transfer or combine pensions directly through the service itself; you'll still need to go through providers or an adviser for anything beyond viewing your information. The dashboard has also had a long, repeatedly delayed journey to get this far, with pension schemes connecting in careful, staged waves rather than everyone joining at once, and public access following only once enough of that connection work is complete.

None of that means you need to wait. You can build a clear picture of your own pensions right now, using the free Pension Tracing Service and by requesting statements directly from providers, well before the dashboard opens to everyone. The three guides below cover exactly what the dashboard is, the honest story of its rollout timeline, and a practical, step-by-step way to track down everything you have today.