Everyone born in these years will be blocked from accessing their state pension for another 12 months.
The state pension, which is now paying £221.20 per week, is automatically paid to anyone over the age of 66, which is the age people become eligible to start drawing their state pension.
And assuming that you have a complete National Insurance record – ie about 35 years of contributions – you will be given the full state pension amount each week.
But a change to state pension eligibility will affect people born after April 1960.
It comes after the previous government under Rishi Sunak announced the state pension age will rise to 67 by the end of 2028.
Keir Starmer’s new Labour government has promised to retain the Triple Lock – the mechanism which automatically increases pension payments in line with inflation, wage growth, or a flat 2.5 percent (whichever is highest), but has not made any promises about reversing this state pension age change.
It means that those born after April 1960 will not be able to start receiving pension payments until 2028, rather than 2027.
At the time, the government’s report said: “After carefully considering expert evidence, including two independent reports, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has concluded the planned pension age rise from 66 to 67 for those born after April 1960 remains appropriate.
The Government plans to have a further review within two years of the next Parliament to reconsider the rise to age 68.”
Current legislation plans for the access age to rise from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028, and then to 68 between 2044 and 2046.
