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

Chapter 6

Graduated pension

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Graduated pension — the official name is Graduated Retirement Benefit — was an early form of earnings-related pension. It only applies to people working between April 1961 and April 1975, and is based on National Insurance Contributions made at that time. The amount of pension payable is almost always very small.


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