New State Pension: every value since 2016
The full weekly rate of the new State Pension, paid to people who reached State Pension age on or after 6 April 2016.
Department for Work and Pensions gives 11 values for this rate, from £155.65 in April 2016 to £241.30 in April 2026. Each row is a date on which the rate was set; between the first and the latest it went up ten times. The largest rise from one value to the next was +10.1%, in April 2023 (from £185.15 to £203.85). Across the whole series the cash value changed by +55.0%. The value in April 2025 was +4.1% on the one before; ONS CPI inflation for calendar year 2025 was 3.4%. Ten years before the latest value, in April 2016, it was £155.65. DWP's expenditure tables put total spending on State Pension at £136.6 billion in 2024/25, with an average caseload of 12,987 thousand.
Full rate
| From | Full rate (a week) | Change on previous value | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £241.30 | +4.8% | not yet published |
| April 2025 | £230.25 | +4.1% | 3.4% |
| April 2024 | £221.20 | +8.5% | 2.5% |
| April 2023 | £203.85 | +10.1% | 7.3% |
| April 2022 | £185.15 | +3.1% | 9.1% |
| April 2021 | £179.60 | +2.5% | 2.6% |
| April 2020 | £175.20 | +3.9% | 0.9% |
| April 2019 | £168.60 | +2.6% | 1.8% |
| April 2018 | £164.35 | +3.0% | 2.5% |
| April 2017 | £159.55 | +2.5% | 2.7% |
| April 2016 | £155.65 | 0.7% |
CPI: ONS series D7G7, for the calendar year the period starts in. About these tables · CSV
Related pages
- Basic State Pension
- Pension Credit standard minimum guarantee
- Spending on State Pension
- Inflation calculator
Sources and receipts
- Abstract of DWP benefit rate statistics 2025: data tables, Department for Work and Pensions.
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c9ecaacbc351d6d9558982356f12251224815e34b4d00747f2a3b40f7a598b01 - Consumer price inflation time series (MM23), Office for National Statistics.
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