Severe Disablement Allowance: Tax Allowances

(asked on 27th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received income tax relief on severe disablement allowance in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 5th March 2018

The table below shows estimates for the number of people receiving income tax or National Insurance Contributions relief for the severe disablement allowance only.

Estimates of the number of people who received tax/NIC relief (Millions) (1)

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

Severe Disablement Allowance

0.2

..(2)

.. (2)

  1. The figures are rounded to the nearest hundred thousand and presented in millions.

  2. ‘..’ Denotes figures that are non-zero but less than one hundred thousand.

The estimates provided are based on the 2014-15 Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI), projected to 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s November 2017 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.

Estimates of the relief from child dependency additions, allowances to rehabilitees, pensions and annuities relief to holders of the Victoria Cross and other gallantry awards, children’s allowance to Forces’ widows is negligible. Estimates of the number of people who received these allowances/reliefs and relief on bereavement payments cannot be provided as there are fewer than 0.1m individuals estimated to benefit from these allowances in each year.

Tax relief on 15p luncheon vouchers ceased in 2013.

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