Enter your date of birth to find the date you reach State Pension age, or the date you reach a retirement age of your own. It also shows how long is left.
Results are estimates for planning. Check the figures before you make a financial or health decision.
How the Retirement date works
There are two modes. In State Pension age mode, the tool uses your date of birth and the current UK timetable. It covers people born from 6 October 1954 to 5 April 1977. Those born before 6 April 1960 get a State Pension age between 66 and 66 and 11 months, depending on birth date, and those born from 6 March 1961 get 67. Dates in between step up month by month.
In age I choose mode, you enter an age from 40 to 90, and the tool adds that many years to your date of birth.
Either way, it shows the retirement date, your age today, and the time, weeks and days remaining (or time since, if the date has passed). For birth dates after 5 April 1977, State Pension age depends on future decisions, so the tool tells you to use the State Pension age checker on GOV.UK. Private and workplace pensions can often be accessed at a different age.
Tips and common mistakes
Treat the State Pension date as a planning guide and confirm it with the official checker on GOV.UK, because the rules can change. State Pension age is not the same as the age you can take a workplace or personal pension, and it is not automatic: you need to claim.
If you want to see what you might have by then, try the Pension pot calculator. Use the Countdown to a date tool for an easy count of days.
Frequently asked questions
How is my State Pension age worked out?
The tool applies the current timetable to your date of birth. It is a guide, and GOV.UK’s State Pension age checker is the place to confirm your own date.
Why does it not work for younger birth dates?
For people born on or after 6 April 1977, the State Pension age depends on future reviews. The tool asks you to check GOV.UK or choose an age instead.
Is this the date I can access my private pension?
Not necessarily. Workplace and personal pensions have their own minimum access ages, which are separate from State Pension age.