The document is delivered directly to the individual member.
Business Case 03
Pensions Administration
A better way to deliver important pension documents
Documentd adds a permanent delivery layer to the communications pension administrators already use, reducing cost and complexity while giving members their own long-term copy.
Where Documentd fits
Use Documentd for the pension documents members need to keep
Documentd is not for everyday messages or live pension information. It is designed for important, point-in-time documents that members, deferred members and pensioners may need to retain, review or retrieve many years later.
Benefit statements
Retirement option packs
Transfer quotations
Retirement confirmation documents
Pension increase notices
P60s and payment records
Other important pension records
Use email for communication. Use the member portal for current information and self-service. Use Documentd when the member should receive their own permanent copy.
Illustrative savings assume around two important documents per member each year. Actual savings depend on scheme type, member status, volumes, existing processes and costs.
Long-term member records
Important pension documents can remain relevant for decades
Pension communications are unusual because the relationship can span much of a member's working life and retirement. Important point-in-time documents therefore need to remain accessible long after the immediate communication has passed.
The member retains long-term access independently of the administrator's portal.
The sender cannot alter the settled copy.
Documentd in practice
- ✓ The member owns their copy
- ✓ The sender cannot alter the settled copy
- ✓ The sender cannot delete the settled copy
- ✓ Access can continue through deferred membership and retirement
- ✓ The original document can be downloaded again
- ✓ Evidence of what was delivered and when is retained
Consumer Duty
It supports better member communications
The Pensions Regulator expects schemes to provide clear and appropriate communications throughout the member journey. Documentd gives important pension documents a persistent, organised place where members can review and retrieve them long after the original communication was sent.
Give the member their own permanent record, rather than making long-term access depend on the administrator's systems.
01
If you currently use a member portal
Keep the portal for pension service. Don't turn it into a permanent archive.
Member portals are built for current benefit information, projections, requests and self-service. Making the portal the member's sole permanent record means adding long-term retention, unchanged historical documents, deferred-member and pensioner access, authentication, migration controls and support to a system designed primarily for active service.
A few pounds indicative annual saving per member From avoiding permanent archive requirements, legacy access and associated portal support.
Current approach
Making the portal the permanent copy creates a long-term infrastructure obligation
- Historical pension documents need to remain accessible for the required period
- Previously supplied information needs to remain reproducible unchanged
- Deferred members and pensioners may require access for decades
- Authentication, password recovery and customer support have to remain available for legacy users
- Retention, audit and administrative controls become part of the portal architecture
- Long-lived accounts extend the identity-management and cyber-security burden
- Portal migrations and replacements have to preserve historical access and document integrity
- The administrator remains responsible for maintaining the entire access environment
Add Documentd
Give members their own permanent copy with Documentd
Keep the portal focused on the pension services members use today. Documents can still appear there for convenience, but Documentd separately delivers the member their own long-term copy. Access to important historic records no longer has to depend on keeping every previous portal account alive indefinitely.
- ✓ Keep the portal focused on current benefits and self-service
- ✓ Avoid building permanent-document requirements into the portal
- ✓ Reduce legacy-member authentication and support
- ✓ Reduce the long-term security burden of historic portal accounts
- ✓ Separate permanent document access from future portal migrations
- ✓ Give members access independently of the administrator's systems
Use Documentd for the permanent copy members keep, and the portal for current pension service and self-service.
Long-term access benefit Give members their own accessible historic record without making continued access to important documents depend entirely on the administrator's live portal infrastructure.
Member-service benefit Members retain important pension records as they move from active membership to deferred status and ultimately into retirement.
Cost benefit A few pounds per member each year can be saved by avoiding unnecessary development, maintenance, legacy access and support.
02
If you currently use email
Keep the email. Give members a better long-term service.
Email is cheap and effective for communication. But important pension attachments become mixed into the member's everyday inbox, leaving the member responsible for storing and finding records they may need again years or even decades later.
Around 10p indicative annual saving per member Assuming around two important documents a year and a low level of document-related member-service contact.
Current approach
Email delivers the document, but leaves the member to manage it
- Important pension documents are mixed with everyday email
- Members must organise and retain attachments themselves
- Historic pension information can become difficult to find
- Members may contact the administrator for copies or help locating documents
- Important information may be needed again many years after it was originally sent
Add Documentd
Add Documentd alongside email
Keep the existing email communication. Documentd also places the important document into the member's own organised Keepd account, where it remains available for future review and retrieval.
- ✓ Existing email communication can remain unchanged
- ✓ Important pension documents are separated from everyday messages
- ✓ Members can review historic information again later
- ✓ Members can retrieve copies themselves
- ✓ Fewer document-related support and resend requests
- ✓ A better long-term member-service experience
Better member service and lower support cost, without replacing email.
Communication benefit The Pensions Regulator expects member communications to be accurate, clear, relevant and provided in ways appropriate to members. Keeping important records accessible and easy to retrieve supports that broader communication objective.
Member-service benefit Members can find and retrieve important pension documents themselves instead of searching old emails or asking the administrator to resend them.
Cost benefit Around 10p per member each year in illustrative servicing savings, meaningful across large scheme memberships.
03
If you currently use post
Phase out paper where electronic delivery is appropriate.
Paper gives the member something permanent to keep, but every delivery carries printing, fulfilment and postage costs, and leaves the member with another physical pension record to file and retain.
Around £2 indicative annual saving per member Based on around two posted documents per year. Postage alone is around this level before printing and fulfilment.
Current approach
The physical delivery process
- Printing
- Paper and envelopes
- Folding and inserting
- Fulfilment
- Postage
- Returned mail
- Address changes
- Replacement copies
- Member paper filing and storage
With Documentd
Replace post with Documentd
Where electronic delivery is appropriate, phase out physical post and give the member their own permanent electronic copy instead.
- ✓ No printing
- ✓ No fulfilment
- ✓ No postage
- ✓ Immediate electronic delivery
- ✓ Documents remain organised in one place
- ✓ No paper filing burden for the member
Keep the permanent copy, lose the cost and inconvenience of paper.
Delivery benefit Move from physical document delivery to a long-term electronic model while still giving the member their own accessible copy of important pension records.
Member-service benefit Members avoid the hassle of filing and storing paper and can retrieve important pension records electronically whenever they need them.
Cost benefit Around £2 per member each year can be available from postage alone, with printing and fulfilment savings on top.
The business case
Add Documentd where permanent delivery matters
Portal Keep it for current pension information and self-service. Reduce the burden of making it the sole permanent archive.
Email Keep using it for communication. Improve member service and reduce historic-document support queries.
Post Phase it out where appropriate and remove printing, fulfilment, postage and paper-filing costs.
Documentd does not ask you to replace systems that already work. It adds a permanent delivery layer that can reduce cost and complexity while giving members a better long-term service.
Documentd adds a purpose-built permanent delivery layer to the systems pension administrators already use, reducing cost and complexity while giving members better long-term access to important pension records.
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Security & trust
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Illustrative savings assume around two important documents per member each year. Email savings use a low level of document-related member-service contact and an average inbound-call cost of approximately £6. Post savings use current retail Second Class postage as an indicative benchmark; business mailing rates vary. Portal savings are illustrative and depend on architecture, scale and existing capabilities. Regulatory summary is a practical overview rather than legal advice.
Business Case 03 · Pensions Administration
Pensions administration
A better way to deliver important pension documents
Documentd adds a permanent delivery layer to the communications pension administrators already use, reducing cost and complexity while giving members their own long-term copy.
Where Documentd fits
Use Documentd for the pension documents members need to keep
Documentd is not for everyday messages or live pension information. It is designed for important, point-in-time documents that members, deferred members and pensioners may need to retain, review or retrieve many years later.
Benefit statementsRetirement option packsTransfer quotationsRetirement confirmation documentsPension increase noticesP60s and payment recordsOther important pension records
Use email for communication. Use the member portal for current information and self-service. Use Documentd when the member should receive their own permanent copy.
Illustrative savings assume around two important documents per member each year. Actual savings depend on scheme type, member status, volumes, existing processes and costs.
Long-term member records Personal to the member The document is delivered directly to the individual member. Accessible later The member retains long-term access independently of the administrator's portal. Reliable historic copy The sender cannot alter the settled copy.
Important pension documents can remain relevant for decades
Pension communications are unusual because the relationship can span much of a member's working life and retirement. Important point-in-time documents therefore need to remain accessible long after the immediate communication has passed.
Documentd in practice
- ✓ The member owns their copy
- ✓ The sender cannot alter the settled copy
- ✓ The sender cannot delete the settled copy
- ✓ Access can continue through deferred membership and retirement
- ✓ The original document can be downloaded again
- ✓ Evidence of what was delivered and when is retained
Consumer Duty
It supports better member communications
The Pensions Regulator expects schemes to provide clear and appropriate communications throughout the member journey. Documentd gives important pension documents a persistent, organised place where members can review and retrieve them long after the original communication was sent.
Give the member their own permanent record, rather than making long-term access depend on the administrator's systems.
01
If you currently use a member portal
Keep the portal for pension service. Don't turn it into a permanent archive.
Member portals are built for current benefit information, projections, requests and self-service. Making the portal the member's sole permanent record means adding long-term retention, unchanged historical documents, deferred-member and pensioner access, authentication, migration controls and support to a system designed primarily for active service.
A few pounds indicative annual saving per member From avoiding permanent archive requirements, legacy access and associated portal support.
Current approach
Making the portal the permanent copy creates a long-term infrastructure obligation
- Historical pension documents need to remain accessible for the required period
- Previously supplied information needs to remain reproducible unchanged
- Deferred members and pensioners may require access for decades
- Authentication, password recovery and customer support have to remain available for legacy users
- Retention, audit and administrative controls become part of the portal architecture
- Long-lived accounts extend the identity-management and cyber-security burden
- Portal migrations and replacements have to preserve historical access and document integrity
- The administrator remains responsible for maintaining the entire access environment
Add Documentd
Give members their own permanent copy with Documentd
Keep the portal focused on the pension services members use today. Documents can still appear there for convenience, but Documentd separately delivers the member their own long-term copy. Access to important historic records no longer has to depend on keeping every previous portal account alive indefinitely.
- ✓ Keep the portal focused on current benefits and self-service
- ✓ Avoid building permanent-document requirements into the portal
- ✓ Reduce legacy-member authentication and support
- ✓ Reduce the long-term security burden of historic portal accounts
- ✓ Separate permanent document access from future portal migrations
- ✓ Give members access independently of the administrator's systems
Use Documentd for the permanent copy members keep, and the portal for current pension service and self-service.
Long-term access benefit Give members their own accessible historic record without making continued access to important documents depend entirely on the administrator's live portal infrastructure.
Member-service benefit Members retain important pension records as they move from active membership to deferred status and ultimately into retirement.
Cost benefit A few pounds per member each year can be saved by avoiding unnecessary development, maintenance, legacy access and support.
Business Case 03 · Pensions Administration
02
If you currently use email
Keep the email. Give members a better long-term service.
Email is cheap and effective for communication. But important pension attachments become mixed into the member's everyday inbox, leaving the member responsible for storing and finding records they may need again years or even decades later.
Around 10p indicative annual saving per member Assuming around two important documents a year and a low level of document-related member-service contact.
Current approach
Email delivers the document, but leaves the member to manage it
- Important pension documents are mixed with everyday email
- Members must organise and retain attachments themselves
- Historic pension information can become difficult to find
- Members may contact the administrator for copies or help locating documents
- Important information may be needed again many years after it was originally sent
Add Documentd
Add Documentd alongside email
Keep the existing email communication. Documentd also places the important document into the member's own organised Keepd account, where it remains available for future review and retrieval.
- ✓ Existing email communication can remain unchanged
- ✓ Important pension documents are separated from everyday messages
- ✓ Members can review historic information again later
- ✓ Members can retrieve copies themselves
- ✓ Fewer document-related support and resend requests
- ✓ A better long-term member-service experience
Better member service and lower support cost, without replacing email.
Communication benefit The Pensions Regulator expects member communications to be accurate, clear, relevant and provided in ways appropriate to members. Keeping important records accessible and easy to retrieve supports that broader communication objective.
Member-service benefit Members can find and retrieve important pension documents themselves instead of searching old emails or asking the administrator to resend them.
Cost benefit Around 10p per member each year in illustrative servicing savings, meaningful across large scheme memberships.
03
If you currently use post
Phase out paper where electronic delivery is appropriate.
Paper gives the member something permanent to keep, but every delivery carries printing, fulfilment and postage costs, and leaves the member with another physical pension record to file and retain.
Around £2 indicative annual saving per member Based on around two posted documents per year. Postage alone is around this level before printing and fulfilment.
Current approach
The physical delivery process
- Printing
- Paper and envelopes
- Folding and inserting
- Fulfilment
- Postage
- Returned mail
- Address changes
- Replacement copies
- Member paper filing and storage
With Documentd
Replace post with Documentd
Where electronic delivery is appropriate, phase out physical post and give the member their own permanent electronic copy instead.
- ✓ No printing
- ✓ No fulfilment
- ✓ No postage
- ✓ Immediate electronic delivery
- ✓ Documents remain organised in one place
- ✓ No paper filing burden for the member
Keep the permanent copy, lose the cost and inconvenience of paper.
Delivery benefit Move from physical document delivery to a long-term electronic model while still giving the member their own accessible copy of important pension records.
Member-service benefit Members avoid the hassle of filing and storing paper and can retrieve important pension records electronically whenever they need them.
Cost benefit Around £2 per member each year can be available from postage alone, with printing and fulfilment savings on top.
Add Documentd where permanent delivery matters
Portal Keep it for current pension information and self-service. Reduce the burden of making it the sole permanent archive.
Email Keep using it for communication. Improve member service and reduce historic-document support queries.
Post Phase it out where appropriate and remove printing, fulfilment, postage and paper-filing costs.
Documentd does not ask you to replace systems that already work. It adds a permanent delivery layer that can reduce cost and complexity while giving members a better long-term service.