Self Assessment: Baffled by State Pension figures

SnowMan

molerat said:

They always seem to use 52 x new for calculating tax, the same is shown in your tax account for your annual pension.  51 x new & 1 x old is only used for the tax code.

Thanks. In that case OP ignore what I said above and you should just accept the prepopulated £13,031 figure.

SnowMan

molerat said:

They always seem to use 52 x new for calculating tax, the same is shown in your tax account for your annual pension.  51 x new & 1 x old is only used for the tax code.

Just had another look at this and this is in the help notes to the tax return

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68da62da49e17d00a56ffb53/SA150-Notes-2025.pdf

That seems to be contradicting what they pre-populate and what they actually normally use to work out the tax (?)

DRS1

Am I wrong to think that you cannot actually change the pre-populated figure anyway?