Providing information to D&B
Our partner D&B calculates your insolvency scores using data you’ve provided on The Pensions Regulator's Exchange system.
They do this by identifying your scheme’s employers, along with those employer’s accounts, which have been filed at Companies House or specified overseas registries.
If your scheme employer does not file with these registries or other permitted sources, you can voluntarily submit data.
How we collect credit ratings
We use two selected rating agencies – Standard and Poor’s (S&P) and Fitch.
When we collect ratings
We collect credit ratings information on the first working day of the month, reflecting the position at the end of the previous month.
This is used to calculate the score at the end of the month in which the information is collected.
We give D&B the credit ratings information and scores are updated by the end of the following month.
D&B certificates
In limited circumstances, a scheme or employer can provide information to Experian that allows them to calculate a more appropriate score. This information includes:
FRS 101/102
If the calculation of a change variable - measuring the change in a data item over time – would otherwise rely on data at two different times on different accounting bases, D&B may accept certificates and adjust the calculation. They must be provided by 31 March.
Employee number information
Three of the scorecards include variables that use employee numbers.
There are employers who report a Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) number in their accounts, or whose auditor signs a written statement confirming they don’t – and aren’t required to – report employee numbers.
If the information is received and accepted by D&B by the end of March, they’ll backdate the revised calculation to the date when the most recent accounts were filed.
Change from consolidated to non-consolidated accounts
Where there are change variables, and where both types of accounts are recording an identical value for the past year (N-3) because any subsidiary companies consolidated are dormant, schemes can notify D&B by 31 March.
If the information is accepted, D&B will override any ‘unknown’ scores previously calculated.
Where it's clear in the relevant accounts that the status of any subsidiaries is dormant and that the variable values are identical on a consolidated or non-consolidated basis, the employer can notify D&B, enclosing suitably marked up accounts.
Where it's not clear, the employer’s auditor will need to provide confirmation of these requirements.