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What is an AIP?

An AIP is an "Assessed Income Period". It applies only to Pension Credit but to all forms of Pension Credit, that is where the claimant receives Guarantee Pension Credit (GPC), Savings Pension Credit (SPC), or both. It provides that any upward change in the claimant's income or capital does not need to be reported and will have no effect on entitlement. Income elements such as state retirement will be increased each year in line with known uprating, and other pensions will be increased each year in line with RPI. The Pension Service will advise the claimant each April of their revised PC entitlement. The AIP process has been phased out, and now only applies to those who were aged 75 or older on 6th April 2016.