State Pension

Calculating State Pension, Pension Credit, eligibility, claiming and deferring

Services

  • Find out how much State Pension you could get (your forecast), when you could get it and how you could increase it

  • Winter Fuel Payment helps older people with their heating bills - claim form, how much you get, eligibility

  • 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.

  • Some older people can get free travel on local buses - contact your council to check your eligibility and apply for a bus pass

  • Home Responsibilities Protection ran between 1978 and 2010 to help protect your State Pension - National Insurance credits, what you'll get, eligibility and applying.

Guidance and regulation

News and communications

Research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations