{"id":66746,"date":"2025-08-13T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66746\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:11:09","slug":"hmrc-issues-warning-for-state-pensioners-who-have-to-provide-letter-of-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66746\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC issues warning for state pensioners who have to provide ‘letter of proof’"},"content":{"rendered":"

One taxpayer reached out to the financial service and tax department via X, formerly Twitter, to discuss the query with the taxman.\"HMRCHMRC issues warning for state pensioners who have to provide ‘letter of proof’<\/p>\n

HMRC has issued a warning for state pensioners who claim the state pension over providing “proof” letters .<\/a> One taxpayer reached out to the financial service and tax department via X, formerly Twitter, to discuss the query with the taxman.<\/p>\n

HMRC asked on Twitter\/X: “Morning, we’re here until 8pm to answer your general queries. No personal details please. Filing your tax return now doesn\u2019t mean you have to pay now. Our Budget Payment Plan service lets you spread the cost of your tax bill.”<\/p>\n

In reply, a taxpayer said:<\/a> “Probably the wrong department but I’m looking for proof of what my state pension I’m getting as I’m trying to possibly claim some travel expenses. I am unable to find my original letters as yet but I will keep looking.<\/p>\n

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” Can I get a copy of the letters or print off some proof?” HMRC said: “Hi Martin. Are you wanting to know how much state pension you receive? What are these expenses for? Thanks, Anas.” A Twitter user said: “Hi….Travelling to an out of town hospital.”<\/p>\n

Another said: “I know how much I get they are asking for proof, unable to find my original letters as the moment.” HMRC said: “For state pension queries please contact 0800 731 0469.<\/p>\n

“Open 8:00am to 6:00pm Monday to Friday. Thanks, Anas”<\/p>\n

“Thank you,” the taxpayer said. Online, HMRC says: “A proof of benefit letter can be used to show your work history, prove that you live in the UK or that you\u2019re entitled to things like free school meals, funding for eye tests, training and travel and other benefits.<\/p>\n

“It can also help with any TV license enquiries.<\/p>\n

“You can contact us to get a copy of the amounts (rates) of benefit you get and the dates you\u2019re paid, your last fit note, your letter of entitlement to benefit (if within the last 5 years) and evidence used in a dispute or investigation, your pension forecast and your Child Maintenance Service account information.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One taxpayer reached out to the financial service and tax department via X, formerly Twitter, to discuss the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,28922,131,132,28443,5476],"class_list":{"0":"post-66746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-hmrc","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance","15":"tag-the-budget","16":"tag-twitter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}