State pensioners are being given new Income Tax Personal Allowance rules that will exempt them from paying tax on their state pension income until at least 2028.

Speculation has been rife that state pensioners will start being hit with tax bills on their state pension income from 2027, thanks to increases to the Triple Lock pushing state pension payouts higher, coupled with freezes on Personal Allowance thresholds since 2021 which has seen new state pensioners in particular pushed ever closer to the £12,570 threshold to start owing tax on their DWP benefit.

This coming financial year, new state pensioners with a full National Insurance record would be just £22 away from owing tax on their state pension, even if they had no other income, and in 2027 they would pass the threshold eve

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