{"id":87413,"date":"2026-04-05T19:52:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87413"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:52:31","slug":"state-pension-age-rise-to-67-starts-today-heres-when-you-can-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/05\/state-pension-age-rise-to-67-starts-today-heres-when-you-can-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"State pension age rise to 67 starts today \u2013 here\u2019s when you can retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64071\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pensioner-calculating-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pensioner-calculating-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pensioner-calculating.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/money\/state-pension-uk-age-paid-ni-b2946907.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">\u00a0state pension age rise<\/a> from 66 to 67 has officially started as of April 2026, bringing a long-anticipated change that will force millions of workers to wait longer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/state-pension-age-rise-to-67-starts-today-here-s-when-you-can-retire\/ar-AA1ZV47W?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69d2aa42545e4b37932685246c3528c8&amp;ei=76\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The\u00a0state pension age rise from 66 to 67 has officially started as of April 2026, bringing a long-anticipated change that will force&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87414,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87413\/revisions\/87414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}