You and Your Pension

You and Your Pension is a guide provided to income support pensioners including service pensioners, social security age pensioners (paid by DVA), and war widows and widowers who receive the income support supplement. The guide contains information about your benefits, rights and obligations.

As well as being available in an electronic version at this site, You and Your Pension is produced as a booklet and on Compact Disc.

This internet version of You and Your Pension was reviewed for 1 July 2011.  Other minor updates occur at various intervals throughout the year.  Over time this may mean the internet version and the printed edition of You and Your Pension may differ.

NB: Always check the Factsheets for recent information or changes that are yet to be included in You and Your Pension.

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Your obligations

Chapter 3 - Which pension do you get?

Chapter 4 - Living arrangements

Chapter 5 - Your income and assets

Chapter 6 - Benefits and services

Chapter 7 - Your health

Chapter 8 - What to do when someone dies

Chapter 9 - What about taxation?

Chapter 10 - Payment of pensions

Chapter 11 - Your rights

Chapter 12 - How we review your pension