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The Department for Work and Pensions is paying older state pensioners extra \u00a3105 per week\u00a0<\/p>\nThe Department for Work and Pensions is paying older state pensioners extra money per weekThe Department for Work and Pensions is paying older state pensioners extra \u00a3105 per week\u00a0<\/p>\n
Older state pensioners can receive up to \u00a3105.70 extra per week from the Department for Work and Pensions with a single claim.<\/p>\n
The DWP<\/a> pays an \u2018over 80 pension\u2019 for retirees aged 80 and over who receive either a basic State Pension of \u00a3105.70 per week, or no basic State Pension, reports Express.co.uk.<\/a><\/p>\n To get the basic State Pension you need to have been born before April 6, 1951, if you\u2019re a man, or before April 6, 1953, if you\u2019re a woman.<\/p>\n READ MORE: <\/strong>\u00a3550 DWP state pension boost set for households born on these dates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/a>, click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n Thanks to an uprating of 4.1% in April this year, the basic State Pension is currently worth \u00a3176.45 per week if you get the full amount, which equates to a maximum of \u00a39,145.40 per year.<\/p>\n To get the full rate, men born between 1945 and 1951 typically need 30 qualifying years of National Insurance (NI), or 44 qualifying years if you were born between 1945 and 1951.<\/p>\n Women, by comparison, often need 30 qualifying years if you were born between 1950 and 1953, or 39 qualifying years if you were born before 1950.<\/p>\n So if your basic State Pension is less than \u00a3176.45 per week it means you don\u2019t have the required number of qualifying NI years.<\/p>\n But if you\u2019re 80 or over and have weekly payments below \u00a3105.70 then you can boost your earnings by claiming the over 80 pension, as this can give you up to \u00a3105.70 per week in the 2025 to 2026 tax year, according to the DWP<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re eligible, the amount you\u2019ll get depends on how much basic State Pension you get (if any), but if it\u2019s less than \u00a3105.70 per week you could get the difference paid up to this amount.<\/p>\n The DWP<\/a> says an 80-year-old who gets \u00a343 per week basic State Pension, for example, would get an extra \u00a362.70 to top up their weekly amount to \u00a3105.70.<\/p>\n But if you had no basic State Pension at all then you’d get the full amount of \u00a3107.70 per week from the DWP<\/a>.<\/p>\n Over a full year, the over 80 pension can give claimants a maximum of \u00a35,496.40 in their pension pot.<\/p>\n This pension is only available to people aged 80 or over and you can\u2019t claim it if you reached State Pension age – which is currently 66 years old for both men and women – on or after April 6, 2016.<\/p>\n You must have been a UK resident for at least 10 years out of a 20 year period, which must include the day before you turned 80 or any day after, or you were \u2018ordinarily resident\u2019 in the UK, the Isle of Man or Gibraltar on your 80th birthday, or the date you submitted your claim for the over 80 pension.<\/p>\n The earliest you can claim is three months before your 80th birthday.<\/p>\n