Deferring UK Pension
#1
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.
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.
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Re: 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.
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.
Last edited by MidAtlantic; Mar 30th 2016 at 6:41 pm.
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Re: Deferring UK Pension
Thanks for the quick reply.
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Re: Deferring UK Pension
https://www.gov.uk/check-state-pension