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Taking early retirement can affect the pension and benefits you get
The earliest you can get your State Pension is when you reach your State…
When you can take money from your pension pot will depend on your pension…
The amount of money you get from any income-related benefits could be…
Plan your retirement income - State Pension, improve your pension, pay National Insurance, check your State Pension age
Working while taking your pension, State Pension age, retirement age, how long you can work, tax and national insurance, flexible working, discrimination
Work out your State Pension age and Pension Credit qualifying age
You may be able to increase your State Pension based on the National Insurance record
Find out how to provide the minimum level of pension that must be paid, depending on benefits a member has accrued and according to anti-franking legislation.
When and how to pay tax if you get money from someone's pension pot after they die - including 'death in service' benefits
How the death of your partner affects your benefits, tax and pension. What you can claim and who to tell about your change of circumstances.
How to claim a refund in the current tax year on a pension death benefit lump sum payment if you've stopped working.
What you need to know if you move or retire abroad - tax, pensions, voting and contacting your local council
Instructions on what to do on the death of a member currently in receipt or non-receipt of an armed forces pension.
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.
Taking up your State Pension later - what you'll get, how to defer, extra State Pension and lump sum payment.
How to deal with lump sum death benefit payments and what tax to deduct.
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