Pensions

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Department for Work and Pensions

The home of Department for Work and Pensions on GOV.UK. 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 over 22 million claimants and customers.

Check your State Pension age

Your State Pension age is the earliest age you can start receiving your State Pension. It may be different to the age you can get a workplace or personal pension.

Your State Pension age is worked out based on your gender and date of birth.

You can keep working after you reach State Pension age. ‘Default retirement age’ (a forced retirement age of 65) no longer exists.

Use this tool to check:

  • when you’ll reach State Pension age
  • your Pension Credit qualifying age
  • when you’ll be eligible for free bus travel

The basic State Pension

How to get and claim your State Pension - forecast/calculator, State Pension age and Additional State Pension

Claim your State Pension online

What you need to do and the information you need before you can start your State Pension online claim

Check your State Pension

Find out how much State Pension you could get, when you could get it and how you could increase it

Check your State Pension

Find out how much State Pension you could get, when you could get it and how you could increase it

Contact the Pension Service

Contact the Pension Service about State Pension eligibility, claims, payments and complaints, and to update your details

The new State 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

Find your pension centre

Contact details for your pension centre to make an enquiry about State Pension claims and Pension Credit claims

Contact the Future Pension Centre

Future Pension Centre contact details - for pension forecasts, statements, advice and enquiries

Delay (defer) your State Pension

Taking up your State Pension later - what you'll get, how to defer, extra State Pension and lump sum payment

Tax when you get a pension

Income Tax on payments from pensions, tax-free allowances, how you pay tax on pensions