{"id":2610,"date":"2015-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev1.2facearts.com\/index.php\/topping-up-your-state-pension\/"},"modified":"2015-01-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:00:00","slug":"topping-up-your-state-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/topping-up-your-state-pension\/","title":{"rendered":"Topping up your State Pension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t&nbsp;The Government has indicated that it wants to offer more to existing pensioners and people who reach State Pension age before 6 April 2016 when the single-tier pension is introduced.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;To achieve this a new Class 3A voluntary contribution will be available from October 2015 to April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;The Class 3A contribution will allow people to top up their additional State Pension.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe rate of contribution, which will be a lump sum payment, will be set at an actuarially fair rate that ensures that both individual contributors and the tax payer get a fair deal.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;The scheme will be only be open for a limited period as it is expected that most people who want to take-up Class 3A entitlement will do so in the first few months.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;You may want to consider the effects this may have on your State Pension at retirement.<\/p>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;The Government has indicated that it wants to offer more to existing pensioners and people who reach State Pension age before 6 April 2016 when the single-tier pension is introduced. &nbsp;To achieve this a new Class 3A voluntary contribution will be available from October 2015 to April 2017. &nbsp;The Class 3A contribution will allow people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}