[2025] UKUT 168 (AAC)

This appeal is about from when the claimant’s entitlement to the state pension arose when he claimed the state pension after he had reached his pensionable and indicated on that claim that he wished to claim the state pension from one date, but where that was a mistake on the claimant’s part and he had wished instead to claim the state pension from an earlier date (his pensionable age).

More particularly, the issue on the appeal is whether anything can be done under the social security statutory machinery to rectify such a mistake once the claim had been decided.