Pensioners’ rights campaigner Dennis Reed visited Downing Street on Tuesday to present a Change.org petition supported by over 117,000 people urging the Government to use the Spring Statement as an opportunity to uprate the state pension tax threshold.Within the next two years, the state pension will rise to a level where it exceeds the personal allowance tax threshold, meaning that many more pensioners risk paying tax on their state pension, having already been taxed on their income during their working years.Speaking from the doorstep of Number 10, Dennis said:“660,000 older people were brought into the tax system last year because the tax thresholds are frozen, and as long as they are frozen, more pensioners will be brought into the system. It’s just outrageous, you contribute tax and national insurance throughout your working life; to then have it taxed again is a double whammy.”. Dennis also criticised the Government’s approach to the Spring Statement more broadly; drawing a link between what he perceives as the Government’s treatment towards the elderly along with many other vulnerable groups. Asked what message he would send directly to the Chancellor, he said:“Stop talking all the time about the only people that matter are working families. There are loads of other people in this society that aren’t working families. There’s older people, who’ve had their winter fuel payment taken away

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A Change.org petition urging the Chancellor to raise the tax threshold for state pensions in this year’s Spring Statement has been signed by almost 80,000 people, and is expected to pass the 100,000 milestone by 26th March, the date of the set-piece financial event.The petition was launched by Dennis Reed, a longtime campaigner for older people’s rights. In 2024, Dennis successfully lobbied the then-Conservative Government to retain the triple lock for pensions in its final Budget; and built on his success by ensuring all major political parties also committed to the triple lock in their 2024 manifestos.Despite this safeguard, Dennis is still concerned about the state of pensioners’ incomes; and says that a failure to increase the tax threshold would be a “double whammy” after the Government’s decision to means-test the Winter Fuel Allowance payment.Explaining the problem with the current threshold, Dennis writes:. “Because of the frozen tax personal allowances, the top of the new state pension may breach the current personal allowance of £12570 in 2026. This would lead to the ludicrous situation of the state pension safety net, which has already been paid for through national insurance and tax, being taxed again. Many more pensioners across the country would be plunged into poverty as a result of political choice.”Dennis says that people his organisation is supporting, like 75-year-old widower Colette, could end up falling into poverty if the threshold is not increased. Susan, another widower who signed the petition added“I resent the fact that my husband and I paid full taxes all of our lives yet still the pensions that we worked hard for are taxed, most unfairly, the tax taken from my state pension would help significantly towards my basic disability extras needed.”You can find his petition, and read more about Colette’s story, at Change.org/StatePensionThreshold