Is the State Pension age going up?
Yes. The State Pension age is rising from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028, phased in by date of birth for people born from 6 April 1960. The government's 2023 review confirmed this rise would go ahead as planned. Under current law the age then rises to 68 between 2044 and 2046.
In 2017 the government proposed bringing the rise to 68 forward to 2037 to 2039, but that change was never legislated. The 2023 review left the question of 68 to a later review, and a third review of State Pension age began in July 2025. The government said in 2023 that it remained committed to giving 10 years' notice of changes.
Your own pension age is on GOV.UK's Check your State Pension age tool. A review recommendation does not change anyone's pension age until Parliament legislates; see when the next review reports.
When is the next figure out?
DWP statistics are pre-announced on the GOV.UK research and statistics calendar and published at 9:30am. Universal Credit statistics moved from monthly to quarterly releases in February, May, August and November after a 2026 consultation, with the final monthly release on 14 April 2026; provisional estimates were dropped and each quarterly release adds three months of finalised data. The benefits compendium, Benefit Combinations and National Insurance number allocations are now released together once a year. Fraud and error estimates appear each spring, and expenditure tables follow the Budget and spring forecast.
Every official release due in the next two weeks is on the release calendar.
Where the figures come from
- Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) statistics and Stat-XploreWhere to find DWP figures on Universal Credit, PIP, State Pension and Pension Credit, how to build a Stat-Xplore table and use the free Open Data API.
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