Question follow-through · 55849
Income Tax: Pensioners
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of raising the income tax threshold to £20,000 for pensioners.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of raising the income tax threshold to £20,000 for pensioners.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to making sure older people can live with the dignity and respect they deserve in retirement. The State Pension is the foundation of the support available to them. Over the course of this Parliament, the yearly amount of the fu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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