diff --git a/changelog.d/13939.feature b/changelog.d/13939.feature
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d0cb902dffd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/13939.feature
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Experimental support for thread-specific receipts ([MSC3771](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3771)).
diff --git a/synapse/storage/databases/main/event_push_actions.py b/synapse/storage/databases/main/event_push_actions.py
index f4cdc2e399ec..4b8e74bae6c5 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/databases/main/event_push_actions.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/databases/main/event_push_actions.py
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ def _handle_new_receipts_for_notifs_txn(self, txn: LoggingTransaction) -> bool:
                 limit,
             ),
         )
-        rows = txn.fetchall()
+        rows = cast(List[Tuple[int, str, str, int]], txn.fetchall())
 
         # For each new read receipt we delete push actions from before it and
         # recalculate the summary.
@@ -1119,18 +1119,18 @@ def _handle_new_receipts_for_notifs_txn(self, txn: LoggingTransaction) -> bool:
         # We always update `event_push_summary_last_receipt_stream_id` to
         # ensure that we don't rescan the same receipts for remote users.
 
-        upper_limit = max_receipts_stream_id
+        receipts_last_processed_stream_id = max_receipts_stream_id
         if len(rows) >= limit:
             # If we pulled out a limited number of rows we only update the
             # position to the last receipt we processed, so we continue
             # processing the rest next iteration.
-            upper_limit = rows[-1][0]
+            receipts_last_processed_stream_id = rows[-1][0]
 
         self.db_pool.simple_update_txn(
             txn,
             table="event_push_summary_last_receipt_stream_id",
             keyvalues={},
-            updatevalues={"stream_id": upper_limit},
+            updatevalues={"stream_id": receipts_last_processed_stream_id},
         )
 
         return len(rows) < limit