When will my wife get her pension?

greenglide

It is a Bank Holiday in Scotland

It may make a difference but I don't think so.

They don't use separate banking days for Scotland and for BACS purposes Scottish only holidays are bank working days. Unlike Northern Ireland where the pension service do have different banking days.

greenglide

He chose weekly in arrears.

Weekly is easy, you get paid every week!

Pennylane

mazzy wrote: »

My birthdate is Oct 53 and state pension date is July 2018.

Tried to delete but didn't work as I hadn't realised that if you were born April 53 but after 3rd you are only having to wait an extra couple of months for your pension.

SO you're just 6 months younger than the OP's wife ..... She gets her pension this July and you'll not get yours for another TWO YEARS!!

This is a great example of why there are so many angry ladies out there born in 1953.

Six months later would be FAIR. Two years isn't!!

greenglide

Your first payment is made at the end of the first full week after you reach State Pension age. It won’t include the time between reaching State Pension age and your normal payment day if that’s less than one week

The gov.uk web site is less than perfect (as in plain wrong).

You only get paid on the payday after the first full week if paid weekly. They then confuse things even more by pointing out the default periodicity is 4 weekly (which it is) when their example doesn't apply for 4 weekly!

The whole page is only for SP, not nSP. Unfortunately use of the terms "old rules" and "new rules" can be confusing as the change to payment in arrears in 2010 is referred to as "old rules" and "new rules " by DWP.

bigadaj

Pennylane wrote: »

SO you're just 6 months younger than the OP's wife ..... She gets her pension this July and you'll not get yours for another TWO YEARS!!

This is a great example of why there are so many angry ladies out there born in 1953.

Six months later would be FAIR. Two years isn't!!

Maybe you could start a campaign..........

xylophone

Weekly is easy, you get paid every week!

Yes - all I am saying is that MG's situation (four weekly in arrears) worked as could have been predicted and my acquaintance's ( weekly) worked as could have been predicted - if the acquaintance had opted for four weekly in arrears, his first payment would have been credited on 7 May which as you point out (and as would have been clear from the leaflet) is more than four weeks after his 65th birthday.

I think we'd better give up on this - my brain is going numb...:D