State pension age: are you affected?

Under current plans, women's state pension age is gradually rising to 65, to equalise with men, in 2020, and everyone's state pension age will rise to 66 between 2024 and 2026. The government is now proposing to tear up that plan and bring in much faster changes, with everyone retiring at 66 by April 2020. As a result of the changes:

• 2.6 million women and 2.3 million men will have to wait longer than expected to qualify for their state pension.
• Around 330,00 women in born between December 1953 and October 1954 will have their state pension age increased by 18 months or longer.
• 33,000 women born between 6 March and 5 April 1954 will see their state pension age increase by 2 years.

Check what the current rise in women’s state pension age and the proposed changes would mean for you.

This will show when you would be eligible to receive your state pension if these changes are passed.

Equalisation means that men born 6 December 1953 onwards will have the same state pension age date as women with the same date of birth.  Under the new proposals men born from 6 December to 5 March 1954  will have to wait up to a year longer and those born from 6 April 1954 onwards will have to wait until they are 66.