State Pension simplification

What the government is doing about State Pension simplification

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Guidance and regulation

• Your new State Pension explained
  • Guidance
  • 7 April 2025
  • Department for Work and Pensions
• Deferring your State Pension if you reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016
  • Guidance
  • 14 August 2019
  • Department for Work and Pensions
• New State Pension: Information for employers and trustees with open, contracted-out defined benefit pension schemes
  • Guidance
  • 19 July 2016
  • Department for Work and Pensions and HM Revenue & Customs
• Pension guidance
  • Guidance
  • 16 October 2014
  • HM Treasury
• Automatic enrolment and pensions language guide
  • Guidance
  • 16 April 2014
  • Department for Work and Pensions

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News and communications

• Guaranteed Minimum Pension
  • 4 March 2022
  • Government Actuary's Department
  • News story
• Millions stand to gain from the new State Pension
  • 14 January 2016
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release
• PM Speech: This is a government that delivers
  • 7 December 2015
  • Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021), and Department for Education
  • Speech
• 'State Pension top up’ scheme starts 12 October 2015
  • 11 October 2015
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release
• New drive to explain State Pension reform
  • 19 September 2015
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• 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
• New State Pension: impact on an individual’s pension entitlement – longer term effects
  • 14 January 2016
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research
• New State Pension: impact on an individual’s pension entitlement during the first 15 years
  • 3 December 2015
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research
• New State Pension: qualitative research on the ideal customer journey
  • 24 October 2014
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research
• Pensions portfolio: automatic enrolment communications tracking research, November 2013
  • 12 March 2014
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Public service pensions increase: 2024
  • 25 January 2024
  • HM Treasury
  • Policy paper
• Public service pensions increase: 2023
  • 20 February 2023
  • HM Treasury
  • Policy paper
• Public service pensions increase: 2022
  • 20 January 2022
  • HM Treasury
  • Policy paper
• 2010 to 2015 government policy: State Pension simplification
  • 8 May 2015
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Policy paper
• Pensions Act 2014 impact assessments: May 2014
  • 9 February 2015
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Impact assessment

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Organisations

• Department for Work & Pensions
• HM Treasury
• Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street
• Department for Education
• Government Actuary's Department

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