Older state pensioners can boost their State Pension by £422.80 per month with a single claim to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Eligible retirees aged 80 and over who get a basic State Pension of less than £105.70 per week, or no basic State Pension at all, can claim an ' over 80 pension ' from the DWP . You will get the basic State Pension if you're a man born before April 6, 1951, or a woman born before April 6, 1953. Currently, the full basic State Pension is worth £176.45 per week, which amounts to a maximum of £9,145.40 per year. To get the full amount, men born between 1945 and 1951 usually need 30 qualifying years of National Insurance (NI), or 44 qualifying years if they were born between 1945 and 1951. Women, by comparison, usually need 30 qualifying years

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