Hi there

How long after you claimed the UK state pension did you actually receive it please? I am just wondering if there are any delays?

Thanks in advance

There is no hard and fast rule..it can take around 3 months to receive the first payment. If you have received nothing by then, Chase it up.

I read you can start the claim 3 months before you reach retirement age. I start mine in September. I am curious to see how it goes.

5 months.

Make a claim

You must be within 4 months of your State Pension age to claim.

To claim your pension, you can either:

• contact the International Pension Centre
• send the international claim form to the International Pension Centre (the address is on the form)

https://www.gov.uk/state-pension-if-you-retire-abroad

Hello I had to phone about my application that I sent in march and they told me it was disregarded as I sent it too early as my birthday when I turn 66 is September no one let me know and I spent 100 dollars on all the paper work and registered mail. I asked what do I do know as it’s only 2 weeks till my birthday. The gentleman told me that they woul revalate it and it would take 3 to 4 months as there is a back log.ihave no faith in them proceeding with this so what should I do .

On the application form it states
This information is on the forms, the guidance notes and on line as reproduced in the post immediately above yours.

There's always a backlog for these things which means the clearance rate is slower than the receiving rate - often hampered by people not following the guidance.
Anyone want to volunteer paying extra tax to have government departments staffed adequately?

Is is possible to communicate via email or do they only accept letters?

It is possible to use e-mail, but its best to make an online enquiry first via the form on the .gov.uk website.
After that they respond quite quickly.

Thanks for that.

I phoned in March and did the application on the phone. Much better as going through question by question if there was one I couldn’t answer the agent said we will try to ignore and see if it will let me continue, example some work history, payroll number. Each time it did and no request for birth marriage certificates etc.
I had no confidence in receiving pension on time, birthday was in June and received a partial payment to my Canadian bank account on June 21st.
I would recommend a phone call rather than paper application.

Can you tell me the phone number and what questions do they ask.

The International Pension Centre +44 (0) 191 218 7777
You can download a paper copy of the application and look at the information you will need from here -
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...-retire-abroad

Basically the guy on the phone went through some of the questions on there including where I wanted my pension payment to go to, bank name, sort code account name and number. He didn't ask as many questions as there were on the paper copy and some I couldn't answer he said were not essential. I basically went through the questions on the paper application before I called so had most of the info together.
If you search the forums for UK Pension application there are several threads about this topic. Good luck!

Do they send your pension through wireless transfer as i asked my bank for to give me my proper sorting code and they asked me this question also do they pay you in pounds and it gets changed to dollars here.

Amazingly my first payment arrived in my US bank account only a few weeks after I applied. I was past my pension age by a year or so at that point.