{"id":78703,"date":"2026-09-15T05:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/pensioners-are-big-winners-with-triple-lock-set-to-rise-by-3-9-lifting-state-pension-to-13000-business-live\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T05:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:55:14","slug":"pensioners-are-big-winners-with-triple-lock-set-to-rise-by-3-9-lifting-state-pension-to-13000-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/pensioners-are-big-winners-with-triple-lock-set-to-rise-by-3-9-lifting-state-pension-to-13000-business-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensioners are \u2018big winners\u2019 with triple-lock set to rise by 3.9%, lifting state pension to \u00a313,000 \u2013 business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wage growth \u2013 used to set triple-lock pension \u2013 slows to 3.9%, meaning state pension should hit \u00a313,000 next year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/sep\/12\/state-pensions-triple-lock-budget\"><strong>\u2018Costing billions\u2019: is the pensions triple lock a lifeline or simply unaffordable?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If the state pension rises to \u00a313,000 next year, it will probably breach the UK\u2019s tax-free personal allowance (currently \u00a312,570) \u2013 the amount you can earn before paying income tax.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, pensioners who don\u2019t receive any other income should still be exempt from paying tax if the state pension exceeds the personal allowance.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2025 Budget the government announced the personal allowance would be frozen at its current level <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/budget-2025-document\/budget-2025-html#:~:text=Income%20tax%20Personal,Bill%202025-26.\">up to April 2031<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It also announced that pensioners whose sole income is the basic or new state pension would not have to pay small amounts of tax via simple assessment from 2027\/28 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/budget-2025-document\/budget-2025-html#:~:text=State%20Pension%20and,detail%20next%20year.\">if the new or basic state pension exceeded the personal allowance from that point<\/a>. To date the government has not published <a href=\"https:\/\/questions-statements.parliament.uk\/written-questions\/detail\/2026-06-17\/10676\">any further details of how this is to be done<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/sep\/15\/uk-companies-job-cuts-pay-growth-slows-grocery-inflation-interest-rates-ai-stocks-live-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wage growth \u2013 used to set triple-lock pension \u2013 slows to 3.9%, meaning state pension should hit \u00a313,000 next year \u2018Costing billions\u2019: is the pensions triple lock a lifeline or simply unaffordable? If the state pension rises to \u00a313,000 next year, it will probably breach the UK\u2019s tax-free personal allowance (currently \u00a312,570) \u2013 the amount &#8230; <a title=\"Pensioners are \u2018big winners\u2019 with triple-lock set to rise by 3.9%, lifting state pension to \u00a313,000 \u2013 business live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/pensioners-are-big-winners-with-triple-lock-set-to-rise-by-3-9-lifting-state-pension-to-13000-business-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pensioners are \u2018big winners\u2019 with triple-lock set to rise by 3.9%, lifting state pension to \u00a313,000 \u2013 business live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}