Change of circumstances
Have your circumstances changed?
If you receive State Pension, Additional State Pension, Over 80 pension or Pension Credit and need to tell us about a change in your details please phone us.
Contact The Pension Service by phone
Find the address and contact details of your pension centre
If you receive Winter Fuel Payment and need to tell us about a change in your details contact the Winter Fuel Payment Helpline
What do we need to know about?
Please tell us straight away if any of the following things change:
Your personal details
- Your bank details change
- You change your name
- You become disabled
- You get married or divorced
- You become part of a civil partnership or your civil partnership is dissolved
- Your partner or spouse dies
- You start or stop doing voluntary work
Where you live
- You move home
- You go abroad
- You go into hospital or someone you claim for goes into hospital
- You are in custody serving a sentence imposed by a court
- You go into residential care or a nursing home
Who you live with
- Your partner or spouse moves in with you or moves away
- Someone who is not dependent on you financially moves in or out of your household
Your financial situation
- You are awarded a benefit
- Any other benefits you receive are changed
- Any other income you receive changes
- Your savings or investments change*
- Your occupational pension changes*
- You start or stop doing paid work
*If you receive Pension Credit and have been awarded an Assessed Income Period you do not need to tell us about changes to your savings and investments or occupational pensions.