Pension and ESA

pze1
pze1 Community member Posts: 2 Listener
in Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Hi, first post, I was pointed in this direction from a phone call to scope. Does anybody know how my wife's contribution based ESA could be affected by taking the 25% tax free of her pension? She's also in the support group. The remaining 75% would be reinvested in a pension fund so there wouldn't be any regular earnings but more an added income for that tax year. The money would be used to buy a car and doing some things around the house so wouldn't be added to savings for very long. Hope this all makes sense and TIA for any advice

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  • calcotti
    calcotti Community member Posts: 10,005 Championing
    It would be treated as capital and capital has no impact on contribution based ESA
  • pze1
    pze1 Community member Posts: 2 Listener
    Thankyou very much
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Wishing you a very warm welcome to the community @pze1

    Good to hear that someone from Scope pointed you our way, I hope the above information has been helpful for you.
  • painter
    painter Community member Posts: 52 Empowering
    I have been on contributory ESA for many years, left work due to ill health and took a lump sum and pension. I have at last this year become eligible for my state pension. Even before I received my first mths state pension I had a letter from HRMC to inform me I would be over the tax threshold and will once again become a tax payer!!  We have though just found out that as my hubby doesn’t pay tax I can pinch some of his tax code so things may not be as bad as it sounds!!!!
  • wilko
    wilko Community member Posts: 2,439 Championing
    @pze1, hello and welcome. As for having some of your husbands tax allowance have you claimed the married allowance if not it can be back dated a few years other wise I think you can only claim £1250 tax allowance from your hubby / partner. Every little helps.

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