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<p>The Government has provided information in order for all individuals to be able
to find out their State Pension age and conditions of their benefits. For example,
following the Pensions Act 1995, State Pension estimates, issued to individuals on
request, made the changes clear.</p><p> </p><p>Following the 2011 changes, which brought
about faster equalisation of men’s and women’s State Pension ages and accelerated
the timetable for the rise to 66, DWP wrote to all individuals directly affected to
inform them of the change to their State Pension age, using the address details recorded
by HMRC at the time.</p><p> </p><p>Information on State Pension age changes and who
they affect is also available on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>,
and the online State Pension age calculator gives individuals a quick and simple way
to check when they will reach State Pension age.</p><p> </p><p>As part of a national
advertising campaign about the changes to the State Pension from 6 April 2016, we
encouraged people to find out about their State Pension age. Between August 2015 and
April 2016, there were 1.6m visits to the campaign page GOV.UK/yourstatepension. Between
February 2016 and April 2016 the State Pension age calculator was used 2.3 million
times. The campaign directs people to our new online Check your State Pension service
where individual personal State Pension forecasts can be viewed. Over a million forecasts
have been viewed since the service launched in February 2016.</p><p> </p><p>We have
committed to completing a review of the State Pension age by May 2017. As part of
our on-going no-cost media activity on the issue, the launch of the review, for example,
was the front page of a number of national newspapers.</p>
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