State Pension age is the earliest time you can draw your government pension (Image: Getty)
For years women would typically retire at 60 and men at 65. These age milestones were often seen as the moment to hang up their work boots and begin to draw on the .
Yet, recent years have seen a grand equalising of ages, with a step-by-step approach initially setting the retirement age for both sexes at 65. Further changes have since reshaped the landscape of retirement for UK citizens.
This meant trom April 6, 2010 to November 2018, the age for women gradually increased from 60 to 65. It affected all women born on or after 6 April 1950.
The changes continued and from December 2018 the pension age increased from 65 to 66 by October 2020 for both men and women. This affects women born on or after 6 April 1953 or men born on or after 6 December 1953.
Further changes are also in the pipeline with age increasing from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028. This affects those born on or after 6 April 1960.
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Then another increase is planned to increase the age to 68 between 2044 and 2046. However according to the Department of Work and Pensions this might be implemented earlier.
People can calculate their exact age that they qualify for their using a tool. But the warns: “The age is regularly reviewed, so the results of this tool may change in the future.”
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Currently those who reach their retirement age and qualify for a full new will get £221.20 a week. However this depends on how many contributions you have made.
You can check out by going to the . You can see how many complete years of National Insurance contributions you have made and a forecast of how much you will get.