Overview
- The Parliament petition passed 100,000 signatures this week, triggering Petitions Committee consideration and a House of Commons debate to be scheduled.
- The campaign by Timothy Hugh Mason proposes a distinct tax code for state pensioners with a £25,140 personal allowance, double the current threshold.
- The Treasury’s official reply says a universal doubling would be untargeted and costly, while reiterating commitment to the State Pension triple lock.
- The government plans to remove Simple Assessment bills for people whose only income is the State Pension from 2027–28, with detailed proposals due in 2026.
- Forecasts put the full New State Pension at about £12,547 in 2026/27 and projected to exceed the £12,570 allowance by 2027, with HMRC estimating 8.7 million pensioners will pay income tax in 2025/26 out of roughly 13 million of State Pension age.