Question follow-through · 96243
Pensioners: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she will consider extending the proposed alignment of the personal allowance for pensioners with the new State Pension rate.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 10 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she will consider extending the proposed alignment of the personal allowance for pensioners with the new State Pension rate.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Dec 2025
Answer published
As announced at the Budget, the government will ease the administrative burden for pensioners whose sole income is the basic or new State Pension without any increments so that they do not have to pay small amounts of tax via Simple Assessment from 2027-2...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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