State Pension Payments

[kenny1234]

My pension is paid to me weekly on a Monday. I have read that the day when it is paid is based on the last 4 numbers of a person's N.I. number
If that is the case I should be paid on a Tuesday!!??
Also--why are some people paid monthly? (in arrears)

[THECORBYLOON]

KENNY, did you claim your pension after 6.4.2010?

If yes, your pay day is a Tuesday according to your NI Number but as your pension is paid in arrears, the end of your Benefit week is a Monday and that is the day it credits.

[barry1010]

Jackdaw, only calendar monthly, not four weekly

[Jackdaw33]

That's what I meant. In a leap year monthly payments only cover 365 days, not 366.

[kenny1234]

I started receiving pension before 2010----is that when the N.I.number system started?---if so my question has been answered.

[THECORBYLOON]

That's when it was introduced for pensions.
Prior to that date, folk could have Monday, Tuesday or Thursday pay days depending on when they claimed or if they were widows.

[kenny1234]

Thank you Corbyloon for the definitve answer.
One more for you----when did people start to have the choice of when they receive their pension (I prefer that title rather than benefit). I don'.t recall it

[THECORBYLOON]

The weekly, four-weekly and thirteen-weekly options were introduced in April 2010.

It's been years since I was involved with State Pensions but when I started, pensions were normally paid weekly by order book or four-weekly into an account.

Some folk chose to have it go in every thirteen weeks but those who were entitled only to an amount below a specified amount, had to be paid annually.

I'm not sure why you were given the option to be paid weekly as the default would normally have been a four-weekly payment.

In theory, the Secretary of State (in the form of the person processing the claim) can allocate any pay day and period but in practice that doesn't happen.

I assume there must be criteria for agreeing to pay weekly rather than four-weekly, based on cost implications but I don't know what they are.

[jno]

looks as though women entitled to married women's pensions should check they've been getting it

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