State Pension age

What the government is doing about State Pension age

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Guidance and regulation

• Deferring your State Pension if you reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016
  • Guidance
  • 14 August 2019
  • Department for Work and Pensions
• Apply for backdated State Pension if you’re a transgender woman
  • Detailed guide
  • 4 October 2021
  • Department for Work and Pensions
• Automatic enrolment and pensions language guide
  • Guidance
  • 16 April 2014
  • Department for Work and Pensions

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News and communications

• National Insurance Fund - Up-rating report
  • 18 May 2022
  • Government Actuary's Department
  • Case study
• Second State Pension Age Review launches
  • 7 January 2022
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release
• Data visualisation techniques used in annual Up-rating report
  • 11 February 2020
  • Government Actuary's Department
  • News story
• Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and responsible investment
  • 6 June 2019
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Speech
• Changes to benefits for mixed age couples
  • 14 January 2019
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Second review of the State Pension age: independent report terms of reference
  • 14 December 2021
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Independent report
• Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes
  • 20 July 2021
  • The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
  • Independent report
• GAD publications
  • 10 June 2021
  • Government Actuary's Department
  • Research
• Report to Parliament on the 2020 re-rating and up-rating orders
  • 11 February 2020
  • Government Actuary's Department
  • Independent report
• Analysis relating to State Pension age changes from the 1995 and 2011 Pensions Acts
  • 7 June 2019
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Second State Pension age review: independent report call for evidence
  • 9 February 2022
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 25 April 2022
• The draft Equality Act (Age Exception for Pension Schemes) (Amendment) Order 2019
  • 24 April 2019
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 30 January 2019
• State Pension age independent review: interim report with questions
  • 13 October 2016
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 31 December 2016
• State Pension age review: final report
  • 19 July 2017
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Policy paper
• 2010 to 2015 government policy: State Pension age
  • 8 May 2015
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Policy paper

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Organisations

• Department for Work & Pensions
• Government Actuary's Department
• Cabinet Office
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street