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Taking early retirement can affect the pension and benefits you get
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How benefits, charges and payments of pension to Chapter 1 members are affected by the public service pensions remedy (also known as McCloud).
If you're over 80 you can get your State Pension topped up to £105.70 a week in 2025 to 2026 - for men born before 6 April 1951 and women born before 6 April 1953
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.
Millions of pensioners will receive as much as £470 more a year added to their State Pension from today, thanks to the government's' ironclad commitment to the pensions Triple Lock throughout this parliament.
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