staff-004: What are the components which make up State Pension and how do you qualify for them?

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Review needs

• Regime-specific components, qualifying records, transitional/inherited elements and cited legal conditions.
• State Pension can mean the post-2016 or earlier regime.
• A transitional award cannot be treated as the simple new-entrant case.

Candidate evidence

source-c003: DMG Vol 12 Ch 74: State Pension — PDF page 1

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Distinguishes new State Pension from retirement pension and routes old-regime research to chapter 75.

74001 This Chapter gives guidance on SP. SP is the legislative term for “new state pension” whereas the
legislative term for “old state pension” is RP. To be entitled to SP, a person must reach pensionable age

on or after 6.4.161. A person who reached pensionable age before 6.4.16 may be entitled to RP 2.


Note: See DMG Chapter 75 for guidance on RP.


                                                                  1 Pensions Act 14, s 1(2); 2 SS CB Act 92



Differences between state pension and retirement pension

Single-component pension
74002 Once the transition to the new SP is complete it will be a single-component pension in contrast to
RP which can consist of BP and AP and other components such as GRB or age addition.

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source-c006: DMG Vol 12 Ch 74: State Pension — PDF page 11

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Full-rate conditions in the stated no-pre-commencement scope; not a universal contribution rule.

74103 A person is entitled to SP payable at the full rate if they


1. have reached pensionable age and


2. have 35 or more qualifying years1.


Note 1: See DMG 74022 for the meaning of pensionable age and DMG 74023 for the meaning of
qualifying year.


Note 2: See DMG 74012 for guidance on references to HMRC if there is a dispute about a NI contribution

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source-c007: DMG Vol 12 Ch 74: State Pension — PDF page 15

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Transitional-rate conditions; claim, NI record and other conditions remain separate.

74202 A person is entitled to SP payable at the transitional rate if they have


1. reached pensionable age1 and


2. at least 10 qualifying years2 and


3. at least one pre-commencement qualifying year3.


Note 1: See DMG 74022 for the meaning of pensionable age, DMG 74023 for the meaning of qualifying
year and DMG 74024 for the meaning of pre-commencement qualifying year.


Note 2: See DMG 74012 for guidance on references to HMRC if there is a dispute about a NI contribution
record.


Note 3: See DMG Chapter 03 for guidance on revision where there is a late award of contributions or
credits, or because of changes to Class 2 NI collection.

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Observed retrieval

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