Financial Planning

Check your UK State Pension

Links to UK Government webpages to help you check your State Pension entitlement. Link to instructions on claiming child benefit to protect State Pension benefits for carers.

How do I find out how much my state pension is worth?

If you want to see how many State Pension years you have accrued to date – you can check this here:

Check your State Pension

To get the full state pension, you need to have 35 years of National Insurance (NI) Contributions.

There is a temporary Extended Deadline to make Voluntary Contributions!!

Deadlines for Voluntary National Insurance Contributions

If you are currently caring for your children, but your partner earns over £50,000 it is still worth claiming child benefit in order to accrue State Pension years.  

More detail about how to do this can be found here:

Protect your state pension