State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
Commons · Question 59106 · Tabled 11 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 18 Jun 2025
Question
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.
Answer
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...