letter of increase in state pension

Yorkshire_Cally

Myself & my husband have not yet recieved our letter stating our pension increases for this year normally got in Feb or March, Surely we should have them by now. cant get thro on the tel line. Anyone else got this problem?

molerat

MrsM had hers weeks ago dated Feb, not received mine yet.

I wonder if it is different systems, mine comes from The Pension Service and hers from DWP.  I know they are the same place but the letters are headed differently.

Yorkshire_Cally

Dont know which ours comes from but as the increase has now started we should have been informed.

molerat

Dropped on the doormat this morning dated March 

In a white envelope and not the usual brown.

Completely different format of letter to MrsM's.  Mine is a benefits increase letter and hers is a SP increase. Both of us are post 2016 pensioners.

Yorkshire_Cally

Ours should be just state pension pre 2016.

molerat

Mine is purely post 2016 SP, no benefits involved, but is worded as a general increase in benefits letter and mentions how the pension is made up showing a single entry as SP.  MrsM's is worded simply as your SP has increased to £xxx.xx per week.

LHW99

No letter re SP received here yet (myself & OH both receiving post 16 SP).

HumberFlyer

I don't know why they send them out to be honest. Most, if not all pensioners know it's going up and probably know what percentage it's going up. My wife and I not received one....... that's fine.

dealyboy

... well mine is similar to Mr @molerat ... only difference is I have an extra line for 'Extra State Pension'.

It is dated 11/02/2023 informing me 'from 13 APR 23 ...' and indeed I received it weeks ago, my surname initial is F and NINO ends 41B.

whizzywoo

Received my letter today.  They are late this year for some reason. 

p00hsticks

HumberFlyer said:

I don't know why they send them out to be honest. Most, if not all pensioners know it's going up and probably know what percentage it's going up. My wife and I not received one....... that's fine.

The only use we really make of them is for identification  purposes - I only have a passport, no driving licence, and the OH is the other way round, so a DWP benefits letter is usually the next best go to when you need two pieces of identification.