Future Focus

The Government has launched an enhanced digital Midlife MOT. The Midlife MOT is an opportunity to take time out to think about your work, health and money. By looking at all three in one place you can start to think about how you can enjoy a healthy working life and plan for a more secure retirement. The Government has taken the lead on delivering the Midlife MOT, and as part of...

As an employer, you have an important role in transforming financial wellbeing in the UK. We have put together a practical guide outlining seven simple steps to help you support the financial wellbeing of your workforce. Wherever you are in the journey, from just starting out to having concrete plans in motion, this guide will provide you with practical guidance, support and assistance to...

As people approach later life, they need to know how much they should be saving into their pension and what options they have for accessing it. As part of the UK Adult Financial Wellbeing Survey 2021, the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) examined attitudes and actions relating to planning for retirement and later life. In particular, MaPS looked at the amount individuals have done to plan...

UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing Following listening events in Scotland and across the UK, The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) launched the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing at the start of 2020. The Strategy is designed to bring partners together to transform the country’s financial wellbeing in a decade. Since then, MaPS has been coordinating proposals for a Delivery Plan for...

Following listening events in Northern Ireland and across the UK, The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) launched the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing at the start of 2020. The Strategy is designed to bring partners together to transform the country’s financial wellbeing in a decade. UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing Since then, MaPS has been coordinating proposals for a Delivery...

UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing Following listening events in Wales and across the UK, The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) launched the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing in January 2020. The strategy is designed to bring partners together to transform the country’s financial wellbeing in a decade. Since then, MaPS has been coordinating proposals for a Delivery Plan for...

UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing In 2020 the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) launched the 10-year framework for achieving our vision of ‘everyone one making the most of their money and pensions’: the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing. Since then MaPS has worked with hundreds of partners in England and the whole of the UK, from across government, industry and the third...

How can the Money and Pensions Service help connect people with pensions guidance? Many people do not seek freely available financial guidance that could help them to understand and make the most of their pensions. Tailored signposting, delivered at key moments, can help to engage people with financial guidance. Our ‘Smarter Signposting’ lab pilot explored ways that financial institutions...

Speaker: Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) and The Pensions Regulator MaPS and The Pensions Regulator (TPR) held a joint virtual event on 19 November 2021, ahead of the launch of Pension Safeguarding appointments on 30 November. These appointments will be available for consumers where schemes or providers have signposted them to guidance where ‘amber flags’ have identified there may be a...

Speaker: Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) chair Sir Hector Sants The FCA, in its consultation paper published in May of this year, proposed a new consumer duty to sit above and in tandem with the current principles. It would be designed to provide an overarching standard of conduct. In the FCA’s words the duty is designed to “put firms in the customers shoes” and to ask the...

Money Midlife MOT: New tool launched

Financial wellbeing guidance for employers

UK Adult Financial Wellbeing Survey 2021: Future Focus

Delivery Plan for Scotland

Delivery Plan for Northern Ireland

Delivery Plan for Wales

Delivery Plan for England

Smarter Signposting to pensions guidance

Pension safeguarding, 19 November 2021

FCA Consumer Duty Summit, 18 November 2021

Managing money in uncertain times