New State Pension and Contracting Out

As Police Officers you were ‘contracted out’ of the State Second Pension and only paid class 2 NI contributions. As a result you may not have the required 35 years to qualify for the New State Pension.

Use the links below for new Single Tier State Pension information:

Your State Pension Statement Explained

Check your State Pension

Top up your State Pension

Pension Tracking Service

GOV.uk ‘Your State Pension explained’ guide Apr 2016

GOV.uk ‘Single-tier Transition and Contracting-out’

GOV.uk ‘New State Pension – if you’re contracted-out of additional State Pension fact sheet’ Jul 2015

How much will I get?

The New State Pension gov.uk

New State Pension Factsheets

House of Commons Library ‘Single-tier State Pension’ Sept 2014

GOV.uk ‘Single-tier Pension fact sheet’

DWP State Pension Toolkit

Guaranteed Minimum Pension Leaflet