Pensions and retirement planning

Pensions and retirement planning

 

 

Working past State Pension age

Now that the default retirement age is being phased out you can choose to work for as long as you like. Find out more about working later in life

• Working past State Pension age - your options

Planning for retirement

• Pensions planning when you're starting out
• Approaching retirement - when to retire and what you need to do
• Just about to retire - what you need to do
• Working past State Pension age - your options
• More about planning for retirement

State Pension

• State Pensions - an introduction
• State Pension and Pension Credit rate: how much can you get?
• Qualifying for a basic State Pension
• Claiming the State Pension
• More about State Pension

Financial support and concessions

• Winter Fuel Payment
• Benefits before retirement
• Benefits in retirement
• Concessions and other help
• More about financial support and concessions

Workplace and personal pensions

• Workplace Pensions
• Starting a company or personal pension
• Personal pensions
• Pension Tracing Service - trace a personal or company pension scheme
• More about workplace and personal pensions

 

 

Pension Credit

• Pension Credit - introduction
• Get a Pension Credit estimate
• More about Pension Credit

Tax and National Insurance in retirement

• Do you have to pay tax in retirement?
• Making sure you've stopped paying National Insurance
• How your pension income is taxed
• More about tax and National Insurance in retirement

 

 

Active when you're older

• Health and fitness
• Learning and education
• Help at home
• More about active when you're older

Working

• Looking for work
• Changing the way you work in later life
• Losing your job
• Opportunities in retirement

 

 

 

See also...

• War Widow's or Widower's Pension (money, tax and benefits section)
• Free bus travel and concessions (travel and transport section)
• Wills and probate (government, citizens and rights section)

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Pensionsandretirementplanning/index.htm