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The secret £720 boost to pensions
Daily Express
|August 21, 2025
THE TAX office offers married couples a generous annual pension boost, yet thousands may be completely unaware it exists.
Under little-known rules, if you contribute to your partner's pension, HMRC automatically tops up the contribution by up to £720 each tax year. Put in £2,880 (the maximum contribution) on your partner's behalf, and the Government bumps it up to £3,600. Surprisingly, new research from Hargreaves Lansdown shows that only 34% of people even know this perk exists.
Among those aged 55 and above - the group closest to drawing pensions awareness slumps to just one in four.
That lack of take-up is worrying because the pension gap between genders remains stark.
This story is from the August 21, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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