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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Consider the transfer of pension allowances between pensioner married couples. More details
Submitted by Doris Bavister – Deadline to sign up by: 29 October 2008 – Signatures: 18
More details from petition creator
When people work they are taxed separately but when they apply for benefits they are treated as a couple. If the Chancellor and Mr Brown are looking for ways to help the pensioner then a transferring of allowances would certainly help those who have a wife who only received the married woman's pension due to Government bad advice area about 50 years and more ago and /or very small pensions as they could transfer the remains of their allowance to their husbands and thus ease the pension burden for them as a couple. This would particularly help those who are only just over the pension tax credit threshold and therefore pay full Council tax etc and would no doubt be very popular.
Current signatories
Doris Bavister, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Tracey
- Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/europensions/)
- Wendy Howell
- Andrew Constantine, Free England Party
- John Talbot
- Philip Glover
- Dick King
- S King
- Jeff
- j wood
- Melvin Wagstaff
- Thomas Alan Pinder
- Sheila Varian
- Wendy Thomas
- Winston Leeks
- Freda Valentine
- Jodie Butcher
