After a lifetime of hard work and paying taxes, the state pension offers a well-earned financial ­cushion that most people depend on in retirement.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that pensioners whose sole income is the flat rate of the New or ...

Hundreds of thousands of workers may be in for a nasty surprise when they retire, due to an issue in the Government's own ...

Shirley Cole assumed she was in line for a full state pension. Aged 65, after almost four decades of work, she’d made more ...

Workers could be left with lower state pensions than they were expecting because a problem with HMRC’s online forecast tool has not been fixed for nine years, Telegraph Money can reveal.

The DWP states: "You'll be asked when you want to start getting your State Pension when you claim. Your first payment will be ...

You could boost your state pension by hundreds or thousands of pounds by deferring it if you don’t need the income right now. We look at how it works, and the pros and cons ...

To qualify for any payment, you typically need at least 10 qualifying years and 35 years to receive the full amount. Although ...

It now appears that up to 800,000 users may have been shown figures that were too generous, leaving some believing they were on course for the full state pension when they were not.