Pension Age for Women Born in 1953

Last updated on July 25th, 2017

When Can I Retire if I was Born in 1953?

If you are a woman who was born in 1953 then as you may know you are caught in quite a complicated area to work out your retirement age, or at least the age that you can expect to start claiming your state pension benefits.

The retirement age increases dramatically for those who were born in 1953 insomuch that those born in early 1953 have a retirement age of over 62 whereas those born in late 1953 have a retirement age of 65 – the point at which retirement ages are equalised for men and women. This is a massive and quick change and a lot of women are not happy about this.

Below we have tried to make it easy to understand what the State Pension Age is for a woman born in 1953:

Born (1953)	State Pension Age
1 January to 5 January	6 September 2015
6 January to 5 February	6 November 2015
6 February to 5 March	6 January 2016
6 March to 5 April	6 March 2016
6 April to 5 May	6 July 2016
6 May to 5 June	6 November 2016
6 June to 5 July	6 March 2017
6 July to 5 August	6 July 2017
6 August to 5 September	6 November 2017
6 September to 5 October	6 March 2018
6 October to 5 November	6 July 2018
6 November to 5 December	6 November 2018
6 December to 31 December	6 March 2019

So as you can see it really depends in the exact date in 1953 that you were born – so someone who is maybe only a month or two different in age will have a wildly different retirement date if they were born in 1953.

Although retirement ages are equalised between men and women at 65 on 6th November 2018, the transition to a retirement age of 66 is accelerated quite quickly from this point and only a few women will actually have a retirement age of 65. It then jumps up to a retirement age of 65 and 3 months on its way to equalising all retirement ages at 66.