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Are you a British citizen retired or planning to retire to Thailand? If so, you should consider the unfair way that the British government will freeze your state pension. This is irrespective of the amount that you have paid into the UK economy and tax system and goes on despite millions of immigrants entering the UK and claiming state benefits — the ones that you paid for.

If the pension policy bothers you, consider signing the END THE UNFAIR FROZEN OVERSEAS PENSION POLICY e-petition on the government web site.

END THE UNFAIR FROZEN OVERSEAS PENSION POLICY

Responsible department: Department for Work and Pensions

Under regulation 3 of the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations British pensioners who retire to any one of over 120 countries, mainly in the Commonwealth, have their rightful state pension frozen. Meanwhile, those who retire to other countries have their pension uprated annually, just as though they never left the UK. This discriminatory policy currently impacts on the lives of over half a million British pensioners and curtails the freedom of choice of all British pensioners in retirement. We call for this Government to heed the plea of the International Consortium of British Pensioners to repeal this Regulation.