Married People: Tax Allowances

(asked on 19th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data his Department holds on the ages of people who claim married couple's allowance.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 22nd March 2019

The Married Couple’s Allowance (MCA) is available for couples where at least one of the partners was born before 6th April 1935. For the current tax year, at least one of the partners would have to have been at least 83 years old as of 6th April 2018.

For 2018-19, the average age of claimants of MCA is around 87 years old.

This estimate is based on the 2015-16 Survey of Personal Incomes projected using economic assumptions consistent with the OBR’s October 2018 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.

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