Exact amounts everyone on State Pension and Pension Credit will get in 2025/2026
The Department for Work and Pensions has now issued a full list of the new payment amounts for everyone on a State Pension or Pension Credit from next April. Based on the triple lock, the State Pension, the guarantee credit element of Pension Credit, Widow's Pension and Widower's Pension are all going up by 4.1 per cent.
Under the triple lock, the State Pension and some other older people's benefits are uprated each year by whichever is highest of the previous September's inflation, May-July earnings growth or a default minimum of 2.5 per cent. Pay growth was the leading factor used for the calculations.
All other DWP and HMRC benefits, which aren't protected by a triple lock, are to rise by a much lower amount of 1.7 per cent based on September's inflation. Some economic analysts have called for an end to the disparities created by the two different sets of increases.
House of Commons Library analysis has shown that pensions have now outstripped working-age unemployment benefits because of the introduction of earnings links in the 1970s and then the more recent triple lock. Meanwhile, unemployment benefit rates have shown a decades-long downward trend, the research indicated.
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New State Pension rates 2025/2026
Full weekly rate: increasing from £221.20 to £230.25
New monthly amount (every four weeks): £921
New annual amount (based on 52 weeks): £11,973
Old State Pension rates 2025/2026
Category A or B Basic Pension:
Category A pensions are paid to people based on their qualifying National Insurance contributions. Category B pensions are paid to spouses and civil partners of deceased recipients in cases where the survivor is not entitled to a Category A pension.
Weekly amount: increasing from £169.50 to £176.45
New monthly amount (every four weeks): £705.80
New annual amount (based on 52 weeks): £9,175.40
Category B L (lower) basic pension - spouse or civil partner's insurance:
A Category B L (lower) pension can be paid when someone doesn't have basic pension entitlement but can claim using their spouse or civil partner's National Insurance contributions. It consists of up to 60 per cent of the spouse's basic pension.
Weekly amount: increasing from £101.55 to £105.70
New monthly amount (every four weeks): £422.80
New annual amount (based on 52 weeks): £5,496.40
Category C or D non-contributory:
The Category C pension is payable to widows of people who reached pension age before July 5, 1948, while the Category D pension is for those aged 80 and over.
Weekly amount: increasing from £101.55 to £105.70
New monthly amount (every four weeks): £422.80
New annual amount (based on 52 weeks): £5,496.40
Maximum additional pension (own plus inherited)
Weekly amount: increasing from £218.39 to £222.10
Increase of Long-term incapacity for age
Higher weekly rate: increasing from £28.40 to £28.90
Lower weekly rate: increasing from £14.20 to £14.45
Invalidity Allowance (Transitional) for State Pension recipients
Higher weekly rate: increasing from £28.40 to £28.90
Middle weekly rate: increasing from £18.20 to £18.50
Lower weekly rate: increasing from £9.10 to £9.25
Pension Credit rates 2025/2026
Standard minimum guarantee
Single weekly rate: increasing from £218.15 to £227.10
Couple weekly rate: increasing from £332.95 to £346.60
Additional amount for severe disability
Single weekly rate: increasing from £81.50 to £82.90
Couple weekly rate (one qualifies): increasing from £81.50 to £82.90
Couple weekly rate (both qualify): increasing from £163.00 to £165.80
Additional amount for carers
Weekly rate: increasing from £45.60 to £46.40
Savings credit
Threshold – single weekly rate: increasing from £189.80 to £198.27
Threshold – couple weekly rate: increasing from £301.22 to £314.34
Maximum – single weekly rate: increasing from £17.01 to £17.30
Maximum - couple weekly rate: increasing from £19.04 to £19.36
Additional amount for children
Weekly rate for first child born before April 6, 2017: increasing from £76.79 to £78.10
Weekly rate for subsequent children: increasing from £66.29 to £67.42
Additional amount for a disabled child
Lower weekly rate: increasing from £35.93 to £36.54
Higher weekly rate: increasing from £112.21 to £114.12
Industrial Death Benefit rates 2025/2026
Widow's pension
Higher weekly rate: increasing from £169.50 to £176.45
Lower weekly rate: increasing from £50.85 to £52.94
Widower's pension
Weekly rate: increasing from £169.50 to £176.45
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