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pension credit

i you get full pip at the age of 52 and a private pension can you still claim for pension credit or do have to wait until your 67?
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No idea to be honest.
The following link will explain the eligibility criteria
https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit/eligibility
There must be people who could claim it but dont have any knowledge.
I wonder if you can have saving or how much and still claim ???
You don't need much knowledge other than be over retirement age or for a couple, either one is over that age.
You then have to tell the Pension Service what your income and capital is.
The rest is left up to the DWP to work it out.
Here is the Pension Credit calculator: https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit-calculator
And contact details on how to claim it: https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit/how-to-claim
Yes they will. When on guaranteed pension credit you are on a fixed amount of money. If you have an increase in the state pension, you get the increase but you also lose the same amount from the PC. You can't just increase your income AND get pension credit - you are not supposed to be better off overall.
https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/pension-credit
For those that were 75 previously you were allowed to keep what was known as an Assessed Income Period.
This guaranteed that no matter what savings you had or any increase in pensions you would get those increases as well as the full PC with no deductions.
Unfortunately this was being abused with multi millionaires claiming pension credit so it has all now stopped.
Now it is very much like Income Support. If you get extra income you must tell them and your PC will be reduced by the same amount of extra income.
Likewise the first £10,000 of savings they ignore. Anything over £10,000 you will lose £1 of PC a week for every £500 of savings over £10,000.
Also if you became eligible for the state pension after April 2016, you no longer get the savings credit that was worth approx an additional £35 a week.
You cannot compare someone who is a lot older than you - their pension credit was worth a lot more than it is today. Pensioners are too wealthy so they say.
The women paid in nothing
They had ALL the bennefits and none of the problems.
The 70s paid for everyone older ourselves and everyone younger than us.
Its not fair