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New software = chaos.

The payment will be £100 for most. A single person with a healthy pension probably wouldn’t need it But some will be supporting wives on a tiny married woman’s pension.

We were just surprised that we hadn’t been aware of this, as I said, it may catch some people out. They could find their taxes going up without realising the cause.

New software = chaos.

The payment will be £100 for most. A single person with a healthy pension probably wouldn’t need it But some will be supporting wives on a tiny married woman’s pension.

Folk with that income will already be paying tax, so they just alter the tax code to suit and it will be taken off the fund that is already being taxed.

I was thinking more of the cost of developing new software required to implement the changes as staff don't manually calculate an individual's tax affairs. :-)

It won't cost them anything. The people who work for the revenue are already paid and won't get any extra for this.

The allowance itself isn't taxable - it will be added to the tax that is due from other income and paid back that way. If it's PAYE then it will be paid monthly.

It is actually a very simple way of only giving the payment to the less well-off.

What a farce :-0. How much will it cost the Government to reclaim the money from individuals through their tax? The reason why Gordon Brown paid it to all Pensioners in the first place was because this was the cheapest way of giving such an allowance without it being means tested which would have been administratively expensive :-0

For those with an income over £35K, will the money be added to the person's income and then they pay it back with 20% or 40% tax? If so, that's unfair especially if they didn't want it in the first place :-0

I got my letter but OH's hasn't arrived yet. He should get it, and we won't lose it through tax. I usually give mine to charity.

This covers most people here.

Age: You must have reached state pension age. For the 2025/26 winter, this means you were born on or before 21 September 1959.

Location: You must have been living in England, Scotland, or Wales during the qualifying week, which is 15 to 21 September 2025.

Income: Your taxable income can be over £35,000, but the payment will be recovered by HMRC through your tax return

Why would anyone with an income over 35,000 need that extra £2-300 sub anyway?
I am aware it is complicated but don't see such earners being hard done by with their 'christmas bonus' being clawed back as 'income tax' :-S

Thanks, we are usually good at spotting things like that.

Yes it was in the DM.

It was certainly in some newspapers as I read it a while back but I think a lot of people missed it. Few of my friends knew. I suspect it was tucked away in the finance pages that most people don't look at.

Or is it.

Oh got his letter today, even tells you which account the payment is going into. He happened to turn over the page, and I think this will catch some people out.

Anyone with an income of over £35,000 will get the payment into their accounts BUT it will all be claimed back via tax.

Did we miss an announcement about this or has it been kept quiet?

I do know that this won’t affect a lot on here, including me ;-)