Full State Pension during retirement means you need to work this number of years

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a new campaign urging older people and their families living in Scotland or other parts of the UK, to check eligibility for Pension Credit, a benefit which could be worth more than £3,300 each year.

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State Pension provides essential financial support for over 12.4 million older people across the UK, including some 981,399 Scots.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that State Pension payments will increase by 3.1% in line with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from Monday April 11, 2022.

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Choosing a name for your child can be a very difficult task. Just ask Kylie Jenner, who recently abandoned her original name of Wolf after a few weeks. While choosing a moniker that suits them is one challenge, there is another barrier according to experts at language-learning platform Babbel.

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Next year, the amount of State Pension people in the UK get paid will change.

The Gaslight Anthem have announced their first UK and Ireland headline tour dates in four years – you can buy tickets to the UK gigs here when they go on sale later this week.The New Jersey band announced their return to action last week, with frontman Brian Fallon telling fans: “I am very pleased to announce to you all that The Gaslight Anthem is returning to full time status as a band.“We’re also beginning to write new songs for what will be our sixth LP. We’re looking forward to the future and seeing you all again.

On the climax of Kate Middleton and Prince William‘s visit to Jamaica as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee, the British royals dipped into the past. Prince William, 39, and Kate, 40, attended a special military parade for service members who recently completed the Caribbean Military Academy’s Officer Training Program. Prince William and Kate dressed in white for the occasion, with the Duke of Cambridge donning his formal military uniform. Together, they stood on the back of a dark green open-top Land Rover – the spitting image of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip when they visited Kingston, Jamaica, in November 1953.

Rishi Sunak has announced that the National Insurance Contributions starting threshold will rise by £3,000 to £12,570 from July, meaning employees across the UK will keep more of what they earn before they have to start paying personal tax.

LONDON -- “The Magician” by Irish writer Colm Toibin won Britain’s Rathbones Folio Prize for literature on Tuesday.Toibin’s fictionalized account of the life of German writer Thomas Mann beat seven other finalists to the multi-genre 30,000 pound ($40,000) prize, including South African writer Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel “The Promise,” Selima Hill’s poetry collection “Men Who Feed Pigeons” and Philip Hoare’s art history book “Albert and the Whale.”Toibin, whose novels include “Brooklyn” and “The Master,” was a previous Folio Prize finalist in 2015 for “Nora Webster” and has been on the Booker Prize shortlist three times.The jury of three other writers — Tessa Hadley, William Atkins and Rachel Long — said they surprised themselves by reaching a unanimous decision. They said Toibin’s book “is such a capacious, generous, ambitious novel, taking in a great sweep of 20th century history yet rooted in the intimate detail of one man’s private life.”Founded in 2013 to rival the prestigious Booker Prize, the Folio is open to fiction, nonfiction and poetry from anywhere in the world published in Britain.

Simon Rattle was getting ready to leave Europe for the first time since the start of the pandemic and head to California with the London Symphony Orchestra for a residency with students at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West.“It’s kind of a miracle that it’s happening,” he said.A U.S. tour started Saturday in Palo Alto, continued on to Berkeley and Costa Mesa before three concerts in Santa Barbara this week.The symphony launched its partnership with the academy in 2018 when five section principals spent 10 days teaching and picked a dozen students as fellows to work with the orchestra in London the following January.

In May 16th 2001 Joana Rodriguez, 25, was just settling into life with a newborn.The beautiful young mum had given birth four days ago, to a son called Ray. Yet that night, three men came into her home, beat up her partner and kidnapped her and her newborn son. Later that day her lifeless body was found in the trunk of a car.

An alarming proportion of young workers in the UK have no plans for their future retirement in place, it has been revealed. It comes after a period of uncertainty stemming from the 18-month lockdown which saw 11.7 million employees out on furlough leave, at a cost of £70 billion.

Thomas Benski and Marisa Clifford, the founders of Gangs of London producer Pulse Films, have chosen to step down after 16 years and Vice has taken full control of the London-headquartered outfit.

SEVENTEEN are set to release new music in May, their label Pledis Entertainment has confirmed.South Korean news outlet Star News first claimed in a report earlier today (March 17) that the boy group would be releasing their fourth full-length album this May. The report has since been confirmed by Pledis Entertainment, in a new statement to Top Star News. “SEVENTEEN are preparing to make a comeback with a full-length studio album in May,” Pledis Entertainment wrote, as translated by Soompi. The forthcoming record will notably mark the 13-piece’s first domestic comeback of 2022, and will arrive seven months after their October 2021 mini-album ‘Attacca’ mini-album.The upcoming project will also be the group’s fourth full-length album, coming almost three years after their previous record ‘An Ode’, which dropped in September 2019.

Jason Sudeikis, star and co-creator of Ted Lasso, asked “How’s it going?” when he joined a SXSW panel on the Apple comedy virtually to a room of laughter.