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State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

Commons · Question 59106 · Tabled 11 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 18 Jun 2025

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Asked by Munira Wilson

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many overseas voters from Twickenham constituency are impacted by frozen British Pensions; and what steps she is taking to support those overseas voters.

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Answered by Torsten Bell, 18 Jun 2025

UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, without regard to nationality, and are only up-rated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries with which we have a reciprocal agreement that provides for up-rating. The policy on...

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