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Pension Credit Application Form PC1
Pension Credit Application Form PC1
If we get your form back after this date, it may affect the date we can pay
you from.
Do not forget to send us any documents we have asked for. We will return them
to you as soon as we can. This is usually within 5 working days of us getting
them but sometimes can take longer. We cannot return bank statements.
Please complete this form carefully. If you fill in this form using a pen, use
black ink and CAPITAL LETTERS.
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Please read the PC1 notes booklet to help you fill in the form
About you
09 Phone number
03 All other names in full If you provide your mobile number we
may contact you by text message to
deal with your claim, or any queries you
may have, as quickly as possible.
04 All other surnames or family names
you have used or have been known by
Include maiden names, all former
married names and all changes of 10 Textphone number
surname or family name. This is used by people with speech and
hearing difficulties.
12 G
et in touch with us for more
information on how we can help you
06 Date of birth
with information in other formats.
DD/MM/YYYY
13 Are you able to speak to us in English?
No
07 Your address Yes Go to question 15
Postcode
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About your partner 22 All other surnames or family names
your partner has used or has been
15 Do you have a partner? known by
We use 'partner' to mean a person you
are married to or a person you live with
as if you are married to them, or a civil
partner or a person you live with as if 23 Your partner’s date of birth
you are civil partners. DD/MM/YYYY
No Go to question 26
Yes
24 Your partner’s NI number
16 Does your partner live permanently in
a care home?
No
25 Is your partner registered blind or
Yes Go to question 26 severely sight impaired?
No
17 Are you separated from your partner?
If you are separated only because Yes
someone is temporarily in a hospital or
care home, tick No.
About any child/children and
No
qualifying young people you want
Yes Go to question 26 to claim for
18 Does your partner agree to you
making this application? 26 Do you want to claim Pension Credit
for any children or qualifying
No young people?
Yes No Go to question 102
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Child 1 36 Where else does the child live?
28 First name
No No Go to question 45
35 How often do they live with you? 43 Is the child in full time education,
non-advanced education or an
For example, 3 days a week.
approved training course?
No Go to question 45
Yes
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44 When did the non-advanced education 51 How long in total are they expected to
or approved training start? be absent for?
DD/MM/YYYY
50 Is the child currently outside Northern Care Component highest rate
Ireland?
Care Component middle rate
No Go to question 53
Care Component lowest rate
Yes
Mobility Component higher rate
Mobility Component lower rate
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57 Is the child entitled to Personal 64 When did the Tax Credit claim come to
Independence Payment? an end?
No Go to question 61 DD/MM/YYYY
Yes
No
Yes
67 Sex of child
60 What rate of Adult Disability Payment
Female
is the child entitled to?
Male
Daily living enhanced rate
Daily living standard rate 68 Child's date of birth
DD/MM/YYYY
Mobility enhanced rate
Mobility standard rate
61 Is the child certified as severely 69 What date do you want to claim for
sight impaired or blind by a the child from?
consultant ophthalmologist? DD/MM/YYYY
No
Yes
70 What date did you become
62 Have you claimed Tax Credits in the responsible for the child?
last 12 months?
DD/MM/YYYY
No Go to question 65
Yes
71 Does the child live with you all
63 Are you still claiming Tax Credits?
the time?
No
No
Yes Go to question 65
Yes Go to question 75
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72 How often do they live with you? 80 Is the child in full time education,
For example, 3 days a week. non-advanced education or an
approved training course?
No Go to question 82
Postcode
74 Who do you share caring 82 Is the child looked after by the Health
responsibilities with? and Social Care Trust, not including
respite care?
No
No Go to question 82
Yes
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87 Is the child currently outside Northern 93 What rate of Child Disability Payment
Ireland? is the child entitled to?
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99 Have you claimed Tax Credits in the 104 What is their name and relationship
last 12 months? to you?
No Go to question 102
Yes
About where you live 107 What is the address of your Housing
Benefit office?
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111 Do you or your partner pay ground 117 Apart from the place where you live,
rent for the place where you live? do you or your partner own any
other property or land in this
No country or abroad?
Yes Please send us proof If it is on a mortgage or loan, tick Yes
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121 Does anyone get Carer's Allowance or 127 Does anyone get Carer's Allowance or
an extra amount of Universal Credit for an extra amount of Universal Credit for
looking after you? looking after your partner?
Tick Yes if they have claimed it and are Tick Yes if they have claimed it and are
waiting to hear about it. Also tick Yes if waiting to hear about it. Also tick Yes if
they could not be paid it because they they could not be paid it because they
receive another benefit. receive another benefit.
No Go to question 124 No Go to question 130
Yes Yes
122 Your carer's full name 128 Full name of your partner's carer
123 Your carer's NI number 129 NI number of your partner's carer
124 Do you spend 35 hours a week or more 130 Does your partner spend 35 hours a
looking after someone who is getting week or more looking after someone
or waiting to hear about: Attendance who is getting or waiting to hear about:
Allowance, Constant Attendance Attendance Allowance, Constant
Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance, Disability Living
Child Disability Payment, Personal Allowance, Child Disability Payment,
Independence Payment or Adult Personal Independence Payment or
Disability Payment? Adult Disability Payment?
No No
Yes Yes
Not known Not known
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132 Do you or your partner get a private 138 When did you receive your
pension, money from a place where latest payment?
you used to work or any other pension? DD/MM/YYYY
If you expect to get a pension in the
next 12 months, please tick Yes. Do not
count any State Pension paid by the
Department for Communities. If you 139 Does the pension increase each year?
tick Yes and need to tell us about more
than 2 pensions, please use the space at No
Other information on page 19. Yes
No Go to question 151
140 Who gets the pension?
Yes
You
Pension 1 Your partner
133 Who pays the pension? 141 If you or your partner expect to get a
pension in the next 12 months, when do
you expect to get the first payment?
DD/MM/YYYY
£
143 What type of pension is it?
136 How often is it paid?
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146 When is the pension 152 Date you left work
normally received? DD/MM/YYYY
For example, the last day of the month.
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About other money coming in
159 Do you or your partner have any other 167 Who is paid the money?
money coming in?
You
You do not need to tell us about
benefits paid by the Department for Your partner
Communities.
No Go to question 182
Money details 3
Money details 1
Money details 2
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175 Who is paid the money? 181 When do you or your partner expect to
start getting this money?
You
DD/MM/YYYY
Your partner
176 Do you or your partner expect to 183 What date did you go into hospital?
start getting any money in the next DD/MM/YYYY
12 months?
If you expect to get a lump sum
payment, please tell us about this in
Other information on page 19. By 184 Name of the hospital
lump-sum, we mean something like
money coming in from the sale of a
house you used to live in, or a one-off
payment you will get instead of a
private pension.
No Go to question 182
185 Are you staying temporarily in a
Yes care home?
No
177 Who will pay this money?
Yes
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187 At any time, have you come to live or 195 Have you come to the UK under the
returned to live in the UK from abroad? Family Reunion Scheme?
No Go to question 206 No
Yes Yes
188 What is your nationality? 196 Have you come to the UK under a
sponsorship undertaking?
This is a form that a relative must sign to
say they will pay for your living expenses
189 Which country have you come from? if you settle in the UK.
No Go to question 201
Yes
193 Does your passport or biometric 200 What date did the sponsor sign the
residence permit say no recourse to sponsorship undertaking?
public funds? DD/MM/YYYY
The passport will have a stamp in it or
you will have a Home Office letter.
No 201 Are you an asylum seeker?
Yes No
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203 Have you recently had a successful 210 Does your partner have the right to
decision on your asylum application? reside in the UK?
No For example, you have the right to reside
in the UK if you are a British or Irish
Yes citizen.
206 Is your partner in hospital as 213 Which country has your partner
an inpatient? come from?
If you do not have a partner, go to
question 230
No Go to question 209
Yes 214 What date did your partner last come
to the UK?
207 What date did your partner go
DD/MM/YYYY
into hospital?
DD/MM/YYYY
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217 Does your partner's passport or 223 Home Office reference number
biometric residence permit say no
recourse to public funds?
The passport will have a stamp in
it or you will have a letter from the 224 What date did the sponsor sign the
Home Office. sponsorship undertaking?
No DD/MM/YYYY
Yes
218 If your partner has lived in the UK 225 Is your partner an asylum seeker?
before, when did they last leave
the UK? No
DD/MM/YYYY Yes
Postcode
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When you want to apply from
230 When do you want to apply from? 232 Please tell us why you think you
We will consider your application from qualify from this date
the date you choose.
The qualifying age
Go to Other Information
Another date
Other information
233 Please use this space to tell us anything else you think we might need to know.
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Other information (continued)
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How we pay you
We normally pay Pension Credit into an account
Please tell us your account details below. By doing this, you agree to be paid
by direct payment. It is very important you fill in all the boxes correctly. If you
are going to open an account, please complete the rest of the form and tell us
your account details as soon as you get them.
If you do not give us details of a bank account you can use, we cannot pay
Pension Credit even if you are entitled to it.
Weekly
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Your declaration
I agree that the information I have given is
complete and correct Please sign the form here
While I am receiving Pension Credit I will report Your signature
changes to my circumstances straight away by
Please make sure you have read and
calling the Department for Communities.
understand the declaration.
If I give wrong or incomplete information, or I
do not report changes straight away, I may:
• be prosecuted
• need to pay a financial penalty
• have my Pension credit reduced or stopped
• be paid too much Pension Credit and have to
pay the money back. Date
DD/MM/YYYY
240 Have you signed this form for 242 Your phone number
someone else?
No Go to What to do now
Yes 243 Your National Insurance number
Tell us about yourself below
Postcode
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What to do now
Please make sure you have signed and dated Then send your forms and documents to us
the declaration
Print out your completed form and sign and
Please check: date it. Use the envelope that came with
• that you are sending us all the original this form, if provided, which does not need a
documents we have requested – for example, stamp. The form should then be sent to:
pension payslips
• that you have answered all the questions on Northern Ireland Pension Service
this form that apply to you and your partner, PO Box 42
if you have one, and Limavady
• that you have filled in form MI12(PC), if we BT49 4AN
included one with this application form. Please tell us about any changes to your
Please tick which original documents you are personal circumstances
sending to us You must tell the Department for Communities
We will return all the documents to you. We straight away by using the number on page
will do our best to return them to you within 1 of this form if there is a change in your
5 working days of receiving them, we cannot circumstances or those of your partner (if you
return bank statements have one).
If you give wrong or incomplete information, or
Proof of service charges do not report changes straight away, you may:
• not receive the full amount of Pension Credit
Proof of ground rent you are entitled to
Proof of a private or works pension • be paid too much and have to pay the
or any other pension - except a State money back
Pension paid by the Department for • have your Pension Credit reduced or stopped
Communities • need to pay a financial penalty.
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How DfC collects and uses information continued
this is needed for a benefit or service you are • your information rights
using. We will keep your information secure, and • how to request a copy of your information
make sure nobody has access to it who should • DfC’s data controller details and other data
not. protection information
• how long DfC will keep your data for; and
Please look at the DfC Privacy Notice on www. • more detail about how DfC uses personal
communities-ni.gov.uk/privacy-notice to find information.
out more about:
Date of application
DD/MM/YYYY
Customer's signature
/ /
Date of entitlement
DD/MM/YYYY
/ /
Date of signature
DD/MM/YYYY
/ /
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