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https://www.which.co.uk/money/pensions-and-retirement/state-pension/your-state-pension-and-benefits/state-second-pension-and-serps-ad9mc1v6fq6t

If you were paying in to the additional state pension before 2002 under Serps, only people who were working qualified for it.

However, under S2P, which was designed to help people who are unable to work or on low incomes, the following people qualified:

employees earning at least £113 a week
people caring for one or more children under age 12 for whom they are claiming child benefit
people claiming carer's allowance
people claiming certain disability-related benefits.

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Still think it unlikely that the basic state pension plus any S2P will be more than the new state pension and therefore it is most likely that the new state pension amount will be applicable. However the only way to find out is to get the state pension forecast.