Where / How to find out Tax Year State Pension payments?

frankiesowner

I am trying to find the total (gross) state pension payments I received for year 2024_25 and what tax was deducted. This seems difficult to locate. I can see a summary for my company pension but not the state one. Where or how do I get this info online or do I have to contact the DWP / HMRC or whoever?  Thanks.

JoeCrystal

DWP never deducted taxes from your state pension so the amounts you are entitled to during that tax years are gross. If you got high enough income to pay taxes so they will take the relevant taxes from other sources of income such as your company pension based on the tax coding.

flaneurs_lobster

Any payments of State Pension that you have received will have been gross. Tax is not deducted at source.

gwynlas

To work out your gross you need to multiply your four weekly state pension amount by 13.

Any tax due would have been dedocted at source from your company pension.

At the moment state pension falls just under personal tax allowance

Marcon

gwynlas said:

To work out your gross you need to multiply your four weekly state pension amount by 13.

It'll give you an approximation but not the precise figure, given that increases are implemented slightly after the start of each tax year, so you receive a small amount at 'last year's' figures.

OP, try your personal tax account - but if you get the figure a bit wrong, it won't matter much to HMRC. They'll work on the figures they hold for you.

p00hsticks

From previous threads relating to this topic, 
DWP pass onto HMRC at the end of the year the amount of State Pension to which a person was entitled during the previous tax year - this is not necessarily the same as what a person has actually received during the year, unless they are being paid weekly. . 

FrugaiMacDugal

You should've had notification from DWP before start of new tax year giving you new allowance.

This is from SA help notes.

Box 8 State Pension

Use the letter ‘About the general increase in benefits’ that the Pension Service sent you to find your weekly State Pension amount.

Add up the amount you were entitled to receive from 6 April 202? to 5 April 202? and put the total in box 8. For tax purposes, the correct amount is always the figure of weekly entitlement not the number of payments you received, so this will be the first week at the old weekly pension rate, plus 51 weeks at the new weekly pension ra

Example

If your old weekly pension was £90 and your new weekly pension is £100 (amounts used for illustrative purposes

• First week at £90 = £90

• 51 weeks at £100 = £5,100

• Put in box 8 £5,190.

jem16

FrugaiMacDugal said:

You should've had notification from DWP before start of new tax year giving you new allowance.

This is from SA help notes.

Box 8 State Pension

Use the letter ‘About the general increase in benefits’ that the Pension Service sent you to find your weekly State Pension amount.

Add up the amount you were entitled to receive from 6 April 202? to 5 April 202? and put the total in box 8. For tax purposes, the correct amount is always the figure of weekly entitlement not the number of payments you received, so this will be the first week at the old weekly pension rate, plus 51 weeks at the new weekly pension ra

Example

If your old weekly pension was £90 and your new weekly pension is £100 (amounts used for illustrative purposes

• First week at £90 = £90

• 51 weeks at £100 = £5,100

• Put in box 8 £5,190.

It always amuses me that the SA notes go to great lengths to explain how to fill in Box 8 and then it’s pre-populated with the wrong figure as they always use 52 times new rate. Each year I have to change it. 

frankiesowner

gwynlas said:

To work out your gross you need to multiply your four weekly state pension amount by 13.

Any tax due would have been dedocted at source from your company pension.

At the moment state pension falls just under personal tax allowance

Ah understood so all state pension payments are gross.

frankiesowner

FrugaiMacDugal said:

For tax purposes, the correct amount is always the figure of weekly entitlement not the number of payments you received, so this will be the first week at the old weekly pension rate, plus 51 weeks at the new weekly pension

My state pension is paid monthly.

Dazed_and_C0nfused

frankiesowner said:

FrugaiMacDugal said:

For tax purposes, the correct amount is always the figure of weekly entitlement not the number of payments you received, so this will be the first week at the old weekly pension rate, plus 51 weeks at the new weekly pension

My state pension is paid monthly.

Trust me, it isn't.  No one has it paid monthly.

Once a year you will have a month with two payments in 🤩