State Pension

02 May 2024

HMRC and DWP launch new voluntary National Insurance payment service
A new digital service to make it easier for individuals to check for and fill in any gaps in their National Insurance record to help increase their State Pension

29 April 2024

The State Pensions Triple Lock gains Labour backing
Keir Starmer’s pledge to retain the pensions Triple Lock for at least the next five years, which followed the Chancellor’s same promise

22 April 2024

Pension Credit and help for disabled people - updated DWP guidance
What the entitlements are to extra money if someone has a disability and applies for Pension Credit, and who to contact

17 April 2024

Updated guidance - new State Pension
The DWP's updated guidance to help people understand the changes to the State Pension from 6 April 2016

27 March 2024

Women's State Pension Age changes were not communicated correctly
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's decision that thousands of women may have been affected by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)'s failure to adequately inform them that the State Pension Age (SPA) had changed

26 March 2024

State Pension underpayments - progress on cases reviewed
The DWP's Legal Entitlements and Administrative Practice (LEAP) exercise to correct underpayments of the State Pension

25 March 2024

The State Pensions triple lock enters the election debate
The State Pensions triple lock, which the Chancellor has confirmed will be in the Conservative’s election manifesto, following a pledge to retain it

06 March 2024

State Pension and transgender women
How an individual can apply for backdated State Pension if they are a transgender woman

29 February 2024

Pension Credit - 5 March 2024 deadline
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)’s latest efforts to encourage low-income pensioners to check if they qualify for Pension Credit

03 February 2024

New state pension - what you need to know
The amount of the new state pension, and how entitlement to it is determined

01 February 2024

State Second Pension (S2P)
The main features of the State Second Pension including details of contracting out

01 December 2023

Proposed State Benefit and State Pension rates 2024/25
The proposed State Benefit rates and State Pension rates for 2024/25