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Pension Credit income omits Carer's Allowance; 2025-26 minimum guarantee values may be wrong #1937
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Noticed while building #1909 and not yet verified against the law.
- Carer's Allowance.
gov.dwp.pension_credit.guarantee_credit.income, the income sources forpension_credit_income, omitscarers_allowance, yetpension_credit_incomestill deducts the income tax on it. Check SPCA 2002 s.15 and SPC Regs 2002 reg 15 for Carer's Allowance and the other benefits PE omits, such as maternity allowance and SSP.- This now reaches CTR in two ways. Savings-credit-only CTR income is the Pension Credit assessment. A Carer's Allowance recipient can also be over-granted guarantee credit receipt, and so maximum CTR.
- 2025-26 minimum guarantee. The standard minimum guarantee has 2025-04-01 values of SINGLE 221.85 and COUPLE 338.61. These equal the 2024 values times 1.017. The 2026 values (238.00 and 363.25) are 1.048 times 227.10 and 346.60, which suggests the published 2025-26 rates were £227.10 and £346.60. Check the 2025 uprating order.
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MaxGhenis commentedon Oct 1, 2026
Both points are in open PRs:
Close this when both merge.
Review r2: family element and 2025-26 minimum guarantee in the YAML
juaristi22 commentedon Oct 24, 2026
Closing as implemented. #1952 added Carer’s Allowance and the Carer Support Payment component to Pension Credit income. #1925 corrected the 2025-26 standard minimum guarantee to £227.10 single / £346.60 couple and added published-rate regression coverage. The wider remaining Pension Credit income work is tracked in #1954 and #2370.
Current implementation: income.yaml, minimum_guarantee.yaml.