UK retirees with no other income will not pay tax on new £13,000 state pension, No 10 says

With the tax-free personal allowance frozen at £12,570, experts had said retirees were in line for paying income tax on the new state pension for the first time. Photograph: Bill Cheyrou/Alamy

The government has promised retirees they will be excluded from paying tax on the full new state pension after official figures paved the way for an inflation-beating increase above the tax-free personal allowance.

Figures published on Tuesday showed that average UK wages rose by 3.9% in the three months to July, signalling that pensioners will receive an uplift of the same percentage next year under the triple lock.