Survive the winter and pensioners will get £200 a week in April

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Could you explain how that worked, old fruit? I don't get it. Cheers

Simple.
My sate pension increased. Every pound of my stated pension takes away a pound of my personal allowance.
The treasury did not increase the personal allowance for this year, so the increase in my state pension meant there was less of my allowance to put against my occupational pension.
My occupational pension increased but but that was more than wiped out by the extra tax I had to pay.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Simple.
My sate pension increased. Every pound of my stated pension takes away a pound of my personal allowance.
The treasury did not increase the personal allowance for this year, so the increase in my state pension meant there was less of my allowance to put against my occupational pension.
My occupational pension increased but but that was more than wiped out by the extra tax I had to pay.

Thought so. Just was a bit ambiguous when you said your occ pen went down.