State pension deferral

GDB2222

My wife reached her SPA  in May 2020. She would now like to draw her pension, and we have started the ball rolling. 

According to the .gov website:

Your State Pension will increase every week you defer, as long as you defer for at least 9 weeks.

Your State Pension increases by the equivalent of 1% for every 9 weeks you defer. This works out as just under 5.8% for every 52 weeks.

I just want to check that we can take this "increase every week" bit literally. So, we don't have to time this so as to get an exact number of complete 9 week periods in? 

Tassie_Devil

Directly under that it says "By deferring for 52 weeks, you’ll get an extra £10.70 a week (just under 5.8% of £185.15)".

52 weeks isn't a multiple of 9, so I'd assume once you reach the 9 week minimum, each week then adds (1%÷9).

GDB2222

Thanks. That’s an excellent point. Well spotted.

calcotti

I think they simply say the equivalent of 1% for every 9 weeks because saying 0.11% per week is more difficult to understand.