Deferring UK Pension
 

Just a quick question of those who have done this or are planning on doing it and have the answer I seek.

I will turn 65 in July and intend on deferring my UK OAP. Will the DWP contact me prior to my retirement date or do I need to contact them and tell them I wish to defer my pension, if so which office should I be contacting, the International Caseworkers Office or the regular DWP office? Presumably I should also be using snail mail rather than telephone?

They have my address in the USA and my UK bank details (because I pay class II NIC's via DD from my UK bank account) so feasibly they may just start depositing it to my UK bank in the absence of any direct instruction from me if they don't contact me via mail.

Thanks.

Re: Deferring UK Pension
 

They contacted me several months in advance of my official retirement date. If I remember correctly I had to do nothing for it to be deferred. If I wanted it paid at my retirement date I had to fill out the claim forms they sent and return them.

Re: Deferring UK Pension
 

Brilliant, that certainly makes it a lot easier. Did they also send you a forecast with details of your contributions as I think they may have it wrong based on my last accounting of contribution years?

Thanks for the quick reply.

Re: Deferring UK Pension
 

No. I think you have to apply for that. It looks like you may now be able to do that on-line:

https://www.gov.uk/check-state-pension