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Over 400,000 British retirees living overseas say they have once again been left ‘out of sight, out of mind and out of pocket’ by the Autumn Budget, which Chancellor Rachel Reeves claimed contained a number of measures to improve ‘fairness’ for pensioners. ‌

The Budget failed to address what campaigners claim is the ‘gross injustice’ that sees these pensioners denied the annual Triple Lock increases to their pension simply because they moved abroad to certain countries, often later in life to be near family. ‌

This so-called ‘frozen pensions’ policy means that expat UK State Pensioners in certain countries, most of them members of the Commonwealth, see their UK State Pension ‘frozen’ at the level it was when first claimed abroad. ‌

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