Universal Credit and other in-work benefits - a guide for union reps and workers (April 2019)

Chapter 6

Old state pensions

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For people who reached SPA before 6 April 2016, including those who deferred claiming their state pension — that is a man born before 6 April 1951 or a woman born before 6 April 1953 — the main benefits are:

• Basic State Pension;

• Additional State Pension — this used to be called the SERPS earnings-related pension before it was renamed the State Second Pension (S2P) in 2002; and

• Graduated Pension (the forerunner of SERPS, if you were working between April 1961 and April 1975).


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