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lynbrown | 22:51 Mon 30th Mar 2009 | Personal Finance
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Just read an article about pensions going up in April. It said single pensioners would get a rise from �90 to �95 while couple would go from �145 to �150 per couple. ( All figures very rough guesses, I cant recall correct figures) But I get my own pension as does my husband and its about �90 each. Is this because I paid a stamp during my working life but some women never worked so they get a smaller pension?
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I get full state pension as I made sufficient contributions - my sister paid reduced NI after marrying so she gets about �2 a week from contributions made before she got married....
Lyn. You have a full pension in your own right due to the fact that you paid the required number of years at the full stamp rate, just as if you were a single person. This will remain the same, and both you and your husband will continue to receive your individual pensions.
Women who never worked and never paid NI contributions don't get a pension in their own right but their husbands get more money for them - the married couples pension.
As the others have already said, if you paid enough NI pension you get a pension in your own right.
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Thanks all.
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