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Find out how much State Pension you could get (your forecast), when you could get it and how you could increase it
What you need to do to get your State Pension online.
Calculating State Pension, Pension Credit, eligibility, claiming and deferring
How to get and claim your State Pension, State Pension age - for men born on or after 6 April 1951 and women born on or after 6 April 1953.
Work out your State Pension age and Pension Credit qualifying age
How to claim the basic State Pension and how it's calculated - for men born before 6 April 1951 and women born before 6 April 1953.
Contact the Pension Service about State Pension eligibility, claims, payments and complaints, and to update your details (such as your address or bank details)
Additional State Pension, also known as the State Second Pension or SERPS, is extra money on top of your basic State Pension.
How to claim State Pension if you're overseas - payment, tax, change of circumstances - contact the International Pension Centre
Taking up your State Pension later - what you'll get, how to defer, extra State Pension and lump sum payment.
Working while taking your pension, State Pension age, retirement age, how long you can work, tax and national insurance, flexible working, discrimination
Check if you were contracted out of the Additional State Pension and what it means for your State Pension
Find out if you've paid enough National Insurance to qualify for the full State Pension - check gaps, contributions and credits, get a National Insurance statement, call the helpline.
If you cannot use the online service to get a State Pension forecast, you can do it by post using this application form. Fill it in and post it to us.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to...
You may be able to increase your State Pension based on the National Insurance record
The international State Pension claim form IPC BR1 if you live abroad.
International Pension Centre contact details for pension enquiries if you've lived or worked abroad
Information to help people understand the State Pension and the changes from 6 April 2016.
Print or request a claim form to claim the basic State Pension by post.
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