Apply for State Pension

Find out how you can download a form to claim your State Pension or alternatively claim by telephone.

How to use this service

Use the links below to download and complete a claim form or contact the Social Security Agency for a claim form.

Download a form

Help for people over state retirement age.

• State Pension Form BR1(PDF 232 KB)
• State Pension Form Notes (PDF 1.54 MB)
• Help with PDF files
  

You make a claim by printing out a claim form and filling it in. When you have filled in the form you can either:

• post it to the office whose details are shown on the form, or
• hand it in at your nearest Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office
• Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)

Important: The date the claim form is received in a Social Security Agency office is the date we can consider payment from - not the date you downloaded the claim form.

Ask for a form

You can get State Pension forms from the Social Security Agency.  Contact one of their offices.

• Pension Service - State Pension (contacts section)
• Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)
• Benefit Shop Castle Court (contacts section)

Claim by Phone

To make a claim, ring the Pension Service Claim Line the quick and easy way to claim State Pension over the phone.

• Pension Service Tele-Claim Line (for State Pensions claims)(contacts section)

More useful links

• State Pension (pensions and retirement planning)