State Pension simplification

What the government is doing about State Pension simplification

Guidance and regulation

Your new State Pension explained
- Guidance
- 10 April 2023
- Department for Work and Pensions
Deferring your State Pension if you reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016
- Guidance
- 14 August 2019
- Department for Work and Pensions
New State Pension: Information for employers and trustees with open, contracted-out defined benefit pension schemes
- Guidance
- 19 July 2016
- Department for Work and Pensions and HM Revenue & Customs
Pension guidance
- Guidance
- 16 October 2014
- HM Treasury
Automatic enrolment and pensions language guide
- Guidance
- 16 April 2014
- Department for Work and Pensions

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News and communications

Guaranteed Minimum Pension
- 4 March 2022
- Government Actuary's Department
- News story
Millions stand to gain from the new State Pension
- 14 January 2016
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Press release
PM Speech: This is a government that delivers
- 7 December 2015
- Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021), and Department for Education
- Speech
'State Pension top up’ scheme starts 12 October 2015
- 11 October 2015
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Press release
New drive to explain State Pension reform
- 19 September 2015
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Press release

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Research and statistics

Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes
- 20 July 2021
- The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
- Independent report
New State Pension: impact on an individual’s pension entitlement – longer term effects
- 14 January 2016
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Research
New State Pension: impact on an individual’s pension entitlement during the first 15 years
- 3 December 2015
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Research
New State Pension: qualitative research on the ideal customer journey
- 24 October 2014
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Research
Pensions portfolio: automatic enrolment communications tracking research, November 2013
- 12 March 2014
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Research

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Policy papers and consultations

Public service pensions increase: 2024
- 25 January 2024
- HM Treasury
- Policy paper
Public service pensions increase: 2023
- 20 February 2023
- HM Treasury
- Policy paper
Public service pensions increase: 2022
- 20 January 2022
- HM Treasury
- Policy paper
2010 to 2015 government policy: State Pension simplification
- 8 May 2015
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Policy paper
Pensions Act 2014 impact assessments: May 2014
- 9 February 2015
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Impact assessment

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Organisations

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HM Revenue & Customs

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