Question follow-through · 51097
Income Tax: Pensioners
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Income Tax threshold for pensioners.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Income Tax threshold for pensioners.
13 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
The Personal Allowance - the amount an individual can earn before paying tax - will continue to exceed the basic and full new State Pension this tax year. This means pensioners whose sole income is the full new State Pension or basic State Pension without...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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