{"id":911,"date":"2018-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/are-you-eligible-to-claim-the-marriage-allowance\/"},"modified":"2018-12-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:00:00","slug":"are-you-eligible-to-claim-the-marriage-allowance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/are-you-eligible-to-claim-the-marriage-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you eligible to claim the Marriage Allowance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage Allowance lets you transfer &pound;1,190 of your Personal Allowance to your husband, wife or civil partner &#8211; if they earn more than you.<\/p>\n<p>This reduces their tax by up to &pound;238 in the tax year. To benefit from this arrangement, you (as the lower earner) must have an income below your Personal Allowance &#8211; this is &pound;11,850 for the current tax year.<\/p>\n<p>You can backdate your claim to include any tax year since 5 April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>If your partner has died since 5 April 2015 you can still claim &#8211; phone the Income Tax helpline. If your partner was the lower earner, the person responsible for managing their tax affairs needs to phone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who can apply?<\/p>\n<p>You can benefit from Marriage Allowance if all the following apply:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you&rsquo;re married or in a civil partnership,<\/li>\n<li>you do not pay Income Tax, or your income is below your Personal Allowance (&pound;11,850 for 2018-19),<\/li>\n<li>your partner pays Income Tax at the basic rate, which usually means their income is between &pound;11,851 and &pound;46,350.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re in Scotland, your partner must pay the starter, basic or intermediate rate, which usually means their income is between &pound;11,850 and &pound;43,430.<\/p>\n<p>It will not affect your application for Marriage Allowance if you or your partner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are currently receiving a pension<\/li>\n<li>live abroad &#8211; as long as you get a Personal Allowance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you or your partner were born before 6 April 1935, you might benefit more as a couple by applying for Married Couple&rsquo;s Allowance instead.<\/p>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage Allowance lets you transfer &pound;1,190 of your Personal Allowance to your husband, wife or civil partner &#8211; if they earn more than you. This reduces their tax by up to &pound;238 in the tax year. To benefit from this arrangement, you (as the lower earner) must have an income below your Personal Allowance &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}