State Retirement Pensions

(asked on 19th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to improve guidance on how people can access information on their contributory years to the state pension in order to plan effectively for retirement.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 25th October 2017

Our early user research identified that people need to understand the link between their National Insurance contribution record and the State Pension this may give them. This is why we introduced the online Check your State Pension service in February 2016. This service provides a State Pension forecast, the earliest date the user can get their State Pension, and whether they can improve their forecast. The service also allows them to look at their National Insurance record online. Since its introduction, 5.6 million State Pension forecasts have been viewed online.

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