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  1. Disability Living Allowance

    DLA You are claiming on behalf of a disabled person under the age of 16 To continue to claim DLA you will need to show that you meet the criteria for either or both of the two components – the ‘care component’ ... walking without assistance. Both components have levels of severity which determine the rate of DLA you will be eligible for (see DLA rates below). If you haven’t already claimed DLA then you’ll need to find

  2. CRS_Aug15_Pension_freedom_guidance_advice.pdf

    Evidence submission Age UK evidence to Work and Pensions Committee Inquiry: Pension freedom guidance and advice 28 August 2015 Jane.vass@ageuk.org.uk Age UK Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock ... disadvantaged groups.  Pension Wise needs to be expanded, more actively promoted, and available throughout retirement. The website should include more tailored information.  Pension Wise should be complemented

  3. CRS_June14_Freedom_choice_in_pensions.pdf

    1 Consultation Response Freedom and choice in pensions Date: June 2014 No: 0814 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or ... individuals when they come to access their defined contribution pension savings. From April 2015 there will no longer be a requirement to purchase an annuity from a defined contribution pension pot. The

  4. RB_Sept14_Ethnicity_and_occupational_pension.pdf

    occupational pension membership in the UK Athina Vlachantoni, Zhixin Frank Feng, Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham Reflecting a relatively low-value Basic State Pension, occupational pensions have historically ... historically been a key aspect of pension protection within Britain. Existing research shows that minority ethnic groups are less likely to benefit from such pensions and are more likely to face poverty in

  5. Legal advice

    Information about when and how to seek professional legal advice.

  6. The coronavirus vaccine (and booster doses)

      Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine –  background information There was originally a universal 2 dose primary course of the vaccine offered from December 2020 to the whole population (aged ... continued periodically since then.  Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine – booster campaigns for people at higher risk The next COVID-19 booster vaccine programme will be rolled out between 1 April and 30

  7. Help us to be there on the hardest day and every day

    people, festive cheer remains out of reach, with a staggering 84,670 older people in Wales saying they will eat Christmas dinner alone this year.

  8. Bereavement Support Payment

    has replaced the following benefits: Bereavement Allowance (which was previously known as 'Widow's Pension') Widowed Parent’s Allowance Bereavement Payment. Claiming BSP if you're not married or in ... in a civil partnership If you have a child or children and were living with your partner when they died, then you can claim BSP.  On 9 February 2023 the law changed, extending BSP to cohabiting partners

  9. CRS_Sept17_Advising_on_pension_transfers.pdf

    Consultation Response Financial Conduct Authority: advising on pension transfers September 2017 Ref: 2017 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it ... (FCA) has proposed a new advice regime for transfers out of Defined Benefit pension schemes, called the ‘Appropriate Pension Transfer Analysis’ (APTA). This would replace the existing regime that is focussed

  10. CRS_Oct17_WP_Committee_Pension_Freedoms.pdf

    Submission to the Work and Pensions Committee Pension freedoms inquiry October 2017 Ref: 2217 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic ... address is Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA. 2 About this inquiry The Work and Pensions Select Committee is running this inquiry to ascertain the impact that the 2015 ‘freedom and choice’

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