[ARCHIVED CONTENT] DWP - Pensions and retirement

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Pensions and retirement

The Pension Service
The Pension Service is part of The Department for Work and Pensions. The Pension Service website provides information and services for everyone whether they are planning for retirement or about to retire.
See www.thepensionservice.gov.uk

The Department is responsible for a range of benefits and services for pensioners.

If you are looking for a particular benefit or service, or if you did not find what you were looking for on The Pension service website or on the websites below , pick an area from the list below that relates to you. You can also check the Benefits and Services A-Z

	Early retirement		Long-term ill or disabled
	Pensions		In hospital
	Inheritance of SERPS: Important information for married people (on The Pension Service website)		Caring for others
	State Pension Forecast [BR19] (on The Pension Service website)		Information about residential care
	Managing on a l ow income		Winter Fuel Payments (on The Pension Service website)
	Visiting or living abroad

Financial Assistance Scheme - Spring 2005
The Financial Assistance Scheme will offer help for people who have lost out on their occupational pension because their pension scheme was under-funded when it wound up.

State Pension deferral – taking up your State Pension later
Find out more about taking up your State Pension later in the State Pension deferral section of The Pension Service website.

Impartial information about pensions
The Pensionguide website provides impartial information from the government to help you plan ahead for retirement.
Go to the Pensionguide website

Age Positive
The Government is working to change attitudes towards age. The Age Positive website contains guidance to encourage employers to end age discrimination in the workplace and to give people more choice and flexibility.
Go to the Age Positive website

Are you over 50?
This website has information on voluntary organisations, training opportunities and health and fitness. It can also help you find out what you are entitled to in retirement and what you can do to improve your income in retirement.
Go to the Over 50 website

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