State Pension UK Citizens Living Overseas 2024-02-05
2024-02-05
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Q1
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The question arises from concerns about the cost and fairness of ensuring that UK state pensions are uprated to current levels for British citizens residing in other countries.
What recent assessment has been made regarding the potential annual cost of restoring parity in the level of state pension received by UK citizens living overseas, based on data from March 2022?
According to the latest estimate, uprating the state pension where we do not currently do so would cost about £0.9 billion a year if all UK state pensions in payment were increased to current UK levels.
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Q2
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The question stems from the belief that British citizens living in the Commonwealth should be entitled to the same state pension uprating as those in the UK, post-EU withdrawal.
Following our withdrawal from the EU, could we move closer to Commonwealth partners by confirming all British citizens who live in the Commonwealth are entitled to appropriate state pension uprating as if they were still in the UK? Will the Minister meet me to discuss practicalities and restore common sense to this situation?
The UK Government continue to uprate state pensions when there is a legal requirement for that to be done, and have no plans to change their long-standing policy or enter into new reciprocal social security agreements.
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