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Entitlements

The separate payments that sit alongside the State Pension — who each one is designed for, how they are assessed, and how to tell a genuine DWP contact from a scam.

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Entitlements The tax on your State Pension that nobody takes off first

DWP pays the pension gross. If tax is due on it, HMRC collects it somewhere else entirely — and that is where the surprises come from.

8 min read
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Entitlements What a frozen Personal Allowance does to a rising pension

The tax-free amount has not moved for years while pensions have. The arithmetic of that gap, worked through at the official rates.

8 min read
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Entitlements What the letters on a pensioner’s tax code are telling you

BR, D0, K and the rest. Each one says something specific about how HMRC thinks your income is put together — and codes do go wrong.

7 min read
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