Written Question·Treasury·UIN 103259

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

Tabled: 6 January 2026

Answered: 12 January 2026

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Question

Mark Garnier

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer on 8 December 2025 to Question 96643, whether she has any plans to require pensioners who received the state pension as their only income and consequently inherit part of (a) the basic state p

Answer

Torsten Bell

As set out in my reply to Question 96643, the Chancellor has said that those whose only income is the basic or new State Pension without any increments will not have to pay income tax over this Parliament. At the Budget, the Government announced that it w...

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