DWP again

I had my letter weeks ago, my increase works out at £8.75 a week which puts me close to paying tax on my state pension, I will also get an increase on my work pension but as my state pension is using up more of my tax allowance I will definitely pay more tax on the other pension so not sure what I will end up with over all. I could work it out but I'm too lazy. I will see it in due course.

My husband got his letter on the same day. Not sure how that works, I thought maybe it was surname order as we are early on in the alphabet but not sure.

I checked my account on line and it gave me details of how much my state pension will be from April 2025 and how much more tax I will pay as my state pension is more than the personal allowance. The tax will be taken from my occupational pensions which were only increased by 3% last January.

I've just looked at my council tax and water bill and the increases wipe out my pension increase. Hope my work pension does show an increase even after tax. Fingers crossed.

Just calculated my pension increase less tax and after increase in council tax and water rates I'm just over £2 a week better off. At least it is a positive figure.

My occupational pension which is a LG one usually goes up at the same rate as the SP but this year it is 1.7 %.
They seem to have changed the criteria.
My SP is also taxed so my overall rise won’t be much.
It certainly won’t cover the rises in utilities and council tax but at least it is guaranteed, we can’t lose it or be made redundant, that is a blessing in my book.

Nothing yet, but as I'm at the end of the alphabet, I'm not getting in a sweat about it.

Thanks Juicylucy, it's reassuring to know I'm not the only one x

I had my letter weeks ago. I am pretty ancient so I assume the letters go out with us oldies first!

For those of you saying the increase is not as good as WFP, have missed the government’s reasoning. By taking away a benefit that paid out to everyone regardless of income, this increase is taxable so those on a very low income will receive about the same amount they got from WFP but those better off will receive less. This is, you must agree, a fairer way of distributing a limited pot of money?