State pensioners born in these years can get £110.27 payment | Personal Finance | Finance

Pensioners above a certain age may be able to claim additional support from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on top of their State Pension. The over-80 pension is a State Pension for people aged 80 or over, open to those who either get a basic State Pension of less than £110.75 a week or have no basic State Pension at all.

The support can boost your State Pension as high as £110.75 a week in the 2026/2027 tax year, paying the difference up to that threshold. The amount you’ll receive depends on the amount of basic State Pension you get, if any. For example, you’re 80 and get £45 a week basic State Pension, your basic State Pension may be topped up by £66.75 to £110.75 a week, the GOV.UK website explains.

However, a number of elgibility criteria apply. Firstly, you cannot receive the over 80 pension if you reached State Pension age on or after April 6, 2016, as it applies to people on the Old State Pension, and a new higher rate pension system covers younger people.

That suggests you must be born on or before April 5, 1951 if you’re a man, and April 5, 1953, if you’re a woman, due to shifts in state pension age over the years, and what were different age rules between men and women.

If eligible you would then start receiving it after you turn 80.

You can claim the over 80 pension if all of the following other criteria apply:

• you do not get basic State Pension or your basic State Pension is less than £110.75 a week in 2026 to 2027
• you were resident in the UK for at least 10 years out of 20 (this does not have to be 10 years in a row) – this 20 year period must include the day before you turned 80 or any day after
• you were ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK, the Isle of Man or Gibraltar on your 80th birthday or the date you made the claim for this pension, if later

The over 80 Pension can be claimed either at your your local Jobcentre Plus, or via the Pension Service, which can sent a claim form to you.

You can claim the benefit from up to three months before your 80th birthday.

More information is available on the UK Government website.