Did you know that at June 2020, there were 298,090 people claiming State Pension in Northern Ireland?  This is a decrease of of 1.2%(3,470) on a year earlier.  The numbers of women claiming State Pension has decreased steadily since 2012 due to increases in the age at which women can claim State Pension.  The Pension age for men and women is increasing from 65 to 66 between November 2018 and October 2020.

Full information is available on the Northern Ireland Benefits Statistics Summary, May 2020 on the Department for Communities website.