State Pension provides essential financial support every four weeks for around 12.4m people across the UK.
The official age of retirement in the UK is 66. Your State Pension age is the same as your Pension Credit age unless you are a man born before December 6, 1953. State Pension is not paid automatically, it has to be claimed by those of eligible age, because some people choose to defer making a claim in order to keep working and contribute more towards their pension pot.
However, many older people may be missing out on an additional benefit payment they could be eligible to claim which is now worth either £247.40 or £369.60 every four weeks, the Daily Record reports.
