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State Pension

Find out about the State Pension

• The new State Pension
• The basic State Pension
• Additional State Pension

How much you could get and when

• Check your State Pension age
• Check your State Pension
• Delay (defer) your State Pension
• Plan your retirement income: step by step
• Over 80 pension

How to claim

• Get your State Pension
• State Pension if you retire abroad

Report a change or ask a question

• Contact the Pension Service
• International Pension Centre
• Contact the Future Pension Centre
• Find your pension centre

What else you can get at State Pension age

• Apply for an older person's bus pass
• Pension Credit
• Winter Fuel Payment

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  Includes career breaks and the holiday entitlement calculator

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  Includes solving a workplace dispute, calculating redundancy pay and dismissal

• State Pension

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• Workplace and personal pensions

  Includes automatic enrolment, lost pensions and planning for retirement

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  Includes employment status, workers' rights and changes to contracts

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  Includes National Minimum Wage rates, keeping pay records and pay rights

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  Includes health and safety, accidents at work and joining a trade union

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