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6 April 2025
- The full State Pension is set to rise by £362.65 (4.1%) a year for most pensioners on 6 April 2025, under what's known as the 'triple lock' guarantee.
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3 days ago · The full new state pension will go up from £221.20 to £230.25 a week, providing an additional £470 a year. The full basic state pension will increase from £169.50 to £176.45 per week, worth ...
3 days ago · The chancellor has confirmed that the state pension will rise by 4.1 per cent in April 2025. The full new state pension will increase to £230.30 a week (£11,975 a year) and the full, old basic ...
- Introduction
- What Is The State Pension?
- How Does The New State Pension Work?
- Information on Your National Insurance Record and The State Pension
- How Does The New State Pension Work For Self-Employed people?
- What If I Have Been A Member of A Workplace Pension Scheme (Contracted out)?
- What If I Qualify For only A Small Amount of State Pension Or No State Pension?
- Getting Or Inheriting The State Pension from Your Husband, Wife, Civil Partner
- What Can I Do to Increase The Amount of Money I Have in Retirement?
The State Pension changed on 6 April 2016 for people who reach State Pension age from then onwards. This is men born on or after 6 April 1951 and women born on or after 6 April 1953. The old rules (which include basic State Pension and Additional State Pension) were complicated, making it difficult to know how much you’d get until you were close to...
The State Pension is a regular payment from the government most people can claim when they reach State Pension age. Not everyone gets the same amount. How much you get depends on your National Insurance record. For many people, the State Pension is only part of their retirement income. For example, they may also have money from a workplace pension,...
The new State Pension is based on people’s National Insurance records. People with no National Insurance record before 6 April 2016 will need 35 qualifying years to get the full amount of new State Pension, when they reach State Pension age. However, most people will have made, or been credited with, National Insurance contributions before 6 April ...
How much State Pension you get depends on your National Insurance record. Generally, you build up your record by paying National Insurance contributions or getting National Insurance credits.
If you’re self-employed, you pay Class 2 National Insurance contributions if your profits are above a certain amount. Class 2 is treated as paid for profits from £6725 to £12570 in 2024 to 2025. You pay Class 4 National Insurance contributions when your profits rise above another level (£12,570 in 2024 to 2025). From 6 April 2016, Class 2 National ...
State Pension under the old rules was made up of 2 parts: the basic State Pension and the Additional State Pension (the Additional State Pension is sometimes called State Second Pension or SERPS). Members of ‘defined benefit’ pension schemes (normally a final salary or salary-related pension scheme), are likely to have been contracted out of the Ad...
You may be eligible for Pension Credit. Pension Credit is an income-related benefit that tops up your weekly income to a guaranteed minimum amount if you have reached the Pension Credit qualifying age. If you are in a couple, the amount you get depends on your joint income and capital (including savings and investments).
9a – Can I get some State Pension based on the National Insurance record from my husband, wife or civil partner?
If you reach State Pension age from 6 April 2016 onwards, your State Pension will be based on your National Insurance record only. See part 4 to see how you can increase your National Insurance record. There is one exception to this: married women or widows who have opted to pay reduced-rate National Insurance contributions. This is called a Reduced Rate Election (previously known as ‘Married Woman’s Stamp’). A woman who made this choice may get a new State Pension based on different rules if...
9b – Can I inherit some of my husband’s, wife’s or civil partner’s State Pension?
You may be able to inherit an extra payment on top of your new State Pension if you are widowed or a surviving civil partner. The extra payment may consist of Additional State Pension or a protected payment (if any). This will depend on whether the deceased: 1. reached State Pension age or died before 6 April 2016, or 2. reached State Pension age, or died under State Pension age after 5 April 2016 You might also be able to inherit an extra State Pension or a lump-sum payment if your late spou...
9c – What if I remarry or form a new civil partnership?
If you are under State Pension age you won’t be able to inherit anything from your deceased spouse or civil partner if you remarry or form a new civil partnership before you reach State Pension age.
The State Pension is intended to be a part of your retirement income. You can decide to put plans in place to increase the money you have in retirement.
Mar 30, 2023 · State Pension age rise to 67 will take place as planned between 2026-2028. Review within two years of next Parliament to reconsider rise to age 68. Delivers on Government responsibility to...
Oct 6, 2020 · Men and women born between 6 October, 1954, and 5 April, 1960, will start receiving their pension on their 66th birthday. For those born after that, there will be a phased increase in...
You’ll be able to claim the new State Pension when you reach State Pension age if you’re: a man born on or after 6 April 1951 a woman born on or after 6 April 1953
