Key Post Step by step guide to applying for UK State Pension

[Brendan Burgess]

I looked at the online application form again and it does say that you need to print and post it. Surely this makes the online process pointless.

Not really pointless. From their point of view, they get a typed form rather than a handwritten one with some boxes not completed properly.

They also get a signature and declaration.

Not sure why we could not have scanned it and emailed it though.

Brendan

 

[Threadser]

It

Makes me wonder are they putting up fresh barriers if its now necessary to print & post

It seems to be a new requirement or maybe I didn't notice it last week? Concerned now that my application process is not complete and that I will have to fill out the form again online, print and post. If this is the case there must be others in the same situation?

 

[Brendan Burgess]

Concerned now that my application process is not complete

I imagine that if it were possible to complete it and submit it online, there would have to be some sort of signature page.

and you would have got some acknowledgment online or by email. check your messages.

 

[Threadser]

There wasn't a signature page on the online form (or I didn't see one) but my form is acknowledged as received by HMRC. I asked their chat bot did I need to print and post the online form but the reply was that they couldn't answer that question! I will try their community forum to see if anyone has asked a similar question.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

my form is acknowledged as received by HMRC.

That seems good enough