Is it possible to defer State Pension a second time?

greenglide

There is one change coming with the flat rate: it will start automatically without claiming it.

That is a new one on me!

DWP does not have sufficient personal details on everybody to do that. Critically they do not have bank account details and I believe even if they did have details they still require the customers agreement to use them.

The new State Pension does still have to be claimed.

jamesd

It looks as though the original plans have changed a bit. Now it will start automatically for everyone claiming unemployment or other, unspecified, benefits, not everyone, and those affected will need to say that they don't want it to start. That appears to be the same as the current setup.

greenglide

That is, of course, a Northern Ireland site you linked to.

This is WAPA (Working Age to Pension Age or something similar) which was supposed to automate the State Pension process using details DWP already held about the working age benefit claim but I always thought that the customer got a completed claim for sent to them for them to sign.

However WAPA is almost certainly being turned off soon so I fail to understand how this would work then.

The concept of considering the impact of claiming or not claiming State Pension when in receipt of working age benefits is quite reasonable as is the concept of "requiring" them to claim.