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How the State Pension is worked out, what the annual uprating changes and why two people under the same rules can receive different amounts.
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This State Pension rise affects millions: what the April increase means for your payments
The full new and basic rates both rose by 4.8% in April. The figure in the announcement is not necessarily the figure in the payment.
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How three numbers decide next year's pension
Three measures are compared each autumn, and the highest one wins. Which measure that is changes from year to year.
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Why your pension lands every four weeks, not monthly
Weekly rates, four-weekly payments and twelve monthly bills do not line up. Here is what that does to the arithmetic.
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What 35 qualifying years actually buys
The figure everyone repeats applies to the new State Pension — and comes with conditions people rarely hear about.
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Putting off your State Pension changes the arithmetic
Waiting raises the weekly figure. How long it takes to make that back is the part worth working out first.
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