The Department for Work and Pensions is sending letters to everyone 66 and older with information about their new state pension before the April increase. The DWP is sending letters to people who were born in 1960 or the years before that and are now state pensioners.
Everyone over 66 is getting letters with new information about their state pension payments. One person who got the letter went to the HMRC forum to say, “I got a letter today saying that my State Pension will go up in April 2026.” Every week, I get my pension.
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State pensioners who were born before 1959 are getting letters from HMRC asking for £300.
Someone who gets the full New State Pension gets £230.25 a week, or £921 every four-week pay period.
People who get the full Basic State Pension get £176.45 a week, or £705.80 every four weeks.
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Sally Tsoukaris, the General Secretary of the CSPA, said that the increase was “welcome news thanks to the continuation of the triple-lock, which is vital to ensure that State Pensions keep pace with wage growth as well as inflation so that pensioners’ income does not suffer the decline relative to wages that occurred prior to its introduction in 2011.”
“Many retirees are having a hard time making ends meet, but they are being pushed into the 20% tax bracket on incomes that aren’t very high,” Sally said.Three-quarters of all retirees are now paying income tax after working their whole lives, and millions more are now paying tax.
As more pensioners reach the tax threshold of £12,570, more of the State Pension increase will be taken in income tax. This will happen because the income tax thresholds will stay frozen.
Sadly for retirees, this has been frozen since April 2021 and won’t go up until at least April 2028.
Retirees are also told that if the threshold had gone up with CPI inflation, it would now be £15,518, which is much higher than the highest rate of State Pension.
