Married Couples Addition or dependency addition for state pension. Married couples and civil partners who both reach state pension age before April 2016 were allowed state pension top-ups if one of them has a short fall. This has quietly disappeared. If you do not build up state pension credits in your own right you do not get a state pension.
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