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There are a number of benefits and support available to people over State Pension age - including free prescriptions and help with heating costs

Pensioners could be eligible for separate cash payments to help with heating bills over the current financial year.

The state pension is expected to increase by 4.8% next year in line with wage growth.

Attendance Allowance, or AA, is a popular benefit among those who are over state pension age from the Department for Work and Pensions

Under the triple-lock mechanism, the state pension increases every April by whatever is the highest

Following legislation laid by the government in July, all eight million Universal Credit recipients will see the standard rate increase by 6.2 per cent.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said his department would review the decision not to compensate women born in the 1950s.

The triple lock ensures the State Pension increases every April in line with whichever is the highest of earnings growth between May and July, inflation in September, or 2.5%

Jackie describes how she lives in fear of her rent going up as she already faces a massive shortfall making it necessary to live frugally

Under the DWP Triple Lock, the Basic State Pension - for state pensioners born before 1953, if they're women - could be hiked by nearly five per cent.

Payment rates for the state pension increase in April

Payment rates for the state pension increase in April

Payment rates for the state pension increased 4.1 per cent this year

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Winter Fuel Allowances worth £300 have been paid to people of state pension age, so aged 66 - born in 1959 or before - this winter.

The state pension age is already set to rise from 66 to 67 next year, and then to 68 by 2046, but some think the only way to grapple with the UK's ageing population is to hike it on a more dramatic scale

The Labour Party government and Department for Work and Pensions, or DWP, will be handing state pensioners a bonus payment in the final month of the year.