What is actually changing in armed forces pensions, and what it means for your own figures. We cover a story when it changes a decision, not because it is in the papers.
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At Defence questions on 19 October, Wes Streeting said he is "looking at" Pension Credit counting War Pension and AFCS payments as income. Five days earlier DWP said it could not change the rules. What he said, and what it does and does not commit to.
Read moreThe MOD has told Parliament that contractual remedies, including Key Performance Indicator Failure Charges, have been applied in relation to armed forces pension administration. A month ago it was still investigating. What changed, and what it means if you have an overpayment letter.
Read moreApplications to the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme close at 11:59pm on 12 December 2026. Who can get £50,000 or an Impact Payment of up to £20,000, the court challenge over veterans pushed to resign, tax and benefits, and the pension check worth doing.
Read moreThe 28 October 2026 Budget made no change to how War Pension and AFCS payments count in Pension Credit and other means tests, and no other announcement has followed so far. What MPs asked for, what the Budget said, and what comes next.
Read moreMOD's compensation statistics for 2025/26 show injury and illness claims took a median 126 working days to decide, more than double 2021/22, with 6,110 still waiting at the year end. What that means if you are claiming now.
Read moreInflation was 3.5% in the 12 months to September 2026, the figure the April 2027 armed forces pension increase follows. Who gets it, what it is worth, and what still has to happen before it is paid.
Read moreFrom 1 October 2026 military nurses move to two new pay spines, and RRP (Nursing) ends a year later. The dates, what replaced what, and why the switch matters for your pension.
Read moreMOD has admitted it never told short service leavers about a statutory pension right, for nineteen years. Its accounts put up to 60,000 people and £45 million against the failure, and the exercise to contact them has not started.
Read moreMore than 1,000 veterans have been asked to repay pension overpayments caused by administrative errors, with some demands reported above £100,000.
Read moreRemediable Service Statements have missed a second deadline. The MOD's August update still leaves 11,770 immediate choice statements outstanding, and some pensions have been suspended after a remedy election.
Read moreService pay rises 3.6% backdated to 1 April 2026, taking average salaries to £45,710. Here is what it does, and does not, do to your pension.
Read moreA tribunal found reservists were wrongly denied AFPS 75 access. On 8 October 2026 the Court of Session gave the MOD permission to appeal, so the case goes on.
Read moreMost of this site is deliberately evergreen. The schemes change slowly, the arithmetic barely changes at all, and a guide written carefully once will still be right in three years. News is the exception, and it earns its place here for two reasons.
The first is that some things genuinely do change what you should do. A pay award changes the final pensionable pay behind a final salary pension. A delayed Remediable Service Statement changes when you can make a decision you cannot reverse. A recovery demand landing on your doormat changes your income this month. Those are not headlines, they are inputs.
The second is that the reporting around armed forces pensions is often thin on the detail that matters. A story will give you the total and the outrage but not the dispute route, the deadline or the distinction between two things that sound identical. Where we can add that, we do, and where a claim rests only on press reporting rather than an official source, we say so rather than laundering it into fact.
For anything you need to act on, the official position is what counts. Contact Veterans UK for a formal forecast or a calculation, and see our sources page for where the figures on this site come from.