State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax
Commons · Question 103259 · Tabled 6 Jan 2026 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 12 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by 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
Answered by Torsten Bell, 12 Jan 2026
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...