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When and how to pay tax if you get money from someone's pension pot after they die - including 'death in service' benefits

Taking early retirement can affect the pension and benefits you get

• State Pension

  The earliest you can get your State Pension is when you reach your State…

• Personal and workplace pensions

  When you can take money from your pension pot will depend on your pension…

• Benefits

  The amount of money you get from any income-related benefits could be…

BIS off-payroll appointee numbers, as of 31 March 2015.

• Updated: 17 June 2015

Additional State Pension, also known as the State Second Pension or SERPS, is extra money on top of your basic State Pension.

You may be able to increase your State Pension based on the National Insurance record

How benefits, charges and payments for judicial pension schemes of Chapter 2 members are affected by the public service pensions remedy (also known as McCloud).

• Updated: 5 October 2023

Preston factors (earnings and interest factors) are provided for employers.

• Updated: 26 August 2020

Find out what you should do if you are leaving or have recently left the armed forces.

• Updated: 12 September 2024

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.

• Updated: 19 December 2018

If you already have the right or have probate (as an executor or administrator) you can start dealing with the estate. You may need to apply for the right to deal with the estate of the person who's died (also...