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Intervention 1: Tailored and phased customer communications throughout the lifecycle

Recommendation

 

Owner

1.1

The rules around annual statements should be simplified

DWP, FCA & FRC

1.2

Data requirements should be aligned between the pensions dashboard and annual statements/revised communications

DWP, FCA & FRC

1.3

ABI, its members and wider industry to develop principles for targeted, tailored and phased customer communications

ABI & wider industry

1.4

ABI and its members to engage with the PLSA’s work on simplified annual benefits statements and retirement targets

ABI & wider industry

1.5

ABI to consider how existing tools, policy proposals and research could be integrated into the development of the revised communications

ABI & wider industry

1.6

As the bodies responsible for setting the relevant rules and legislation on communications, FCA and DWP to provide oversight and input on revised communications 

DWP, FCA & FRC

1.7

Develop rules of thumb that are not personal recommendations

ABI, FCA & SFGB

1.8

Review and potentially remove the term “wake up pack” from regulatory and industry use

DWP & FCA

1.9

FCA and new guidance body to review name of MAS guide

FCA & SFGB