I am often seeing news reports that people on the new state pension will get so much but that people on the old state pension will get (a different) so much.

Is that correct? I wonder if it is the whole truth.

The reason I ask is because I seem to remember seeing somewhere that when the new state pension came in that someone official when questioned rather precisely said that nobody would actually get the new rate until some future date.

The reason that I saw at that time was that anyone starting to receive state pension after the new state pension scheme started would get a pension based on the number of years of National Insurance contributions or credits at the new higher rate and the rest on the number of years at the old rate.

So I am wondering if the media are simply reporting the two rates when, perhaps, nobody is actually receiving the full new rate as they have fewer than 35 years at the new higher rate of contributions.

Does anybody know please?

William