State Pension and tax code 2026/27

badmemory

Most of the problem seems to be caused by the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. Then one of them gets a new system & totally messes the whole thing up.

jem16

Now received my 2026/27 tax code and state pension amount is correct using 51/1 calculation.

badmemory

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81896224#Comment_81896224

Just received mine & it is incorrect using 52 weeks as it normally does. I checked it twice as I didn't want to make a fool of myself.

Dazed_and_C0nfused

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81911808#Comment_81911808

Are you quite sure it's wrong?

This explains when HMRC use 52 weeks and when they use 1 old rate + 51 new rate.

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/paye-manual/paye76030

jem16

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81911808#Comment_81911808

In your case I don’t think it is wrong as you reached SPA before 6th April 2010.

badmemory

I will wait until I receive the first payment which includes Friday the 10th April. If for a change it is correct as it hasn't been yet I won't have made a fool of myself. I believe the pay week starts on a Saturday & ends on a Friday in this case 10th April. The Saturday being before the increase date of 6th April.

jem16

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81911925#Comment_81911925

You seem to be in an odd position with your payment day being a Friday and not a Monday as would be expected. So although that manual says it should be 52 weeks, I’m not so sure it will work out that way but you never know.

badmemory

It seems that if you deferred your state pension like me or inherited some from a spouse like my mother then the payment day became Friday.

jem16

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81912018#Comment_81912018

What’s the last 2 digits of your NI number?

badmemory

Mine is 41 my mothers was 30 something but it has been over 10 years & I can't remember that last digit. At least the tax code letter included my over 80s 25p a week which the letter from the DWP omitted. I now have the correction though.

I do find it concerning that at almost 80 as I am many people find these things a bit of a struggle. How do they cope with them getting things wrong & how will many cope when they start getting simple assessment tax bills every year.