Your annual statement, explained
A sample statement with every part explained beside it.
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The interactive feature
Numbered markers
Six markers on the sample statement link to their explanation. Each explanation links back, so the statement and the notes can be read in either order.
The concept
- What it addresses
- The yearly pension statement: several pages of figures, projections and terms most members skim.
- Who it is for
- Members opening this year's statement, especially those who have never read one closely.
- Their main task
- Understand the six parts of the statement that matter and spot anything to act on.
- The next step it offers
- Log in to check details, retirement age and beneficiaries.
- Visual direction
- A paper statement on the left with numbered markers, plain explanations on the right. Quiet, document-like, trustworthy.
- Copy approach
- Line by line and literal: what this number is, where it comes from, what to do about it.
Accessibility in this concept
- Markers are real links with descriptive names
- Explanations are an ordered list that reads well on its own
- Definitions open in place with native disclosure controls
- Sample figures are labelled as made up
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