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State Pension by Datazone

The State Pension is a "contribution-based" benefit, and depends on an individual's National Insurance (NI) contribution history. For someone with the 30 qualifying years (years in which NI contributions were paid) it is payable at a flat rate of £113.10 per week (2014-15). The current state pension age is 65 for men and is gradually being increased from 60 to 65 for women. A number of changes to the State Pension Age are underway. The basic State Pension increases every year by either: earnings (the average percentage growth in wages in Great Britain); prices (the percentage growth in prices in the UK as measured by the Consumer Prices Index CPI) or by 2.5%, whichever is the highest. [More information regarding the State Pension](https://www.gov.uk/state-pension/overview)

Datasets shown here are extracts of UK datasets relating to State Pension claims based on the 694 geographic datazones in the Glasgow conurbation and covers the years 2002 - 2013. Full UK datasets are available from the [Department of Work and Pensions](http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/NESS/BEN/sp.htm).

All counts have been adjusted using a variant of controlled rounding to avoid the disclosure of any personal information. All cells have been rounded to base 5 and the total equals the sum of the disaggregation shown. Please note that any counts that are shown as zero may not be a ‘real’ zero. . Although all small area totals are within 5 of the true value, aggregating them to form Local Authority totals is not recommended due to the fact that it is the sum of rounded figures. Local Authority totals should therefore be obtained from the [DWP Tabulation Tool](http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html). More information about the DWP and their tabulation tool and collections can be located [here](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool)

Further qualifications or limitations to the data can be examined [here.](http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/NESS/BEN/iben.htm)

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