Pensioners: British Overseas Territories

(asked on 1st November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will meet leaders of British Overseas Territories to discuss UK pensioners residing in those territories whose pensions have not been uprated.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 6th November 2017

I have been asked to respond on behalf of the Secretary of State.

Invitations to Ministers are considered when they are received. However it should be noted that the policy on up-rating state pensions abroad is quite clear and has remained consistent for around 70 years; the UK State Pension is payable world wide but is only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so. Ministers and officials from this Department have discussed UK state pensions with leaders and representatives of the British Overseas Territories in recent years, including attendance at Joint Ministerial Councils.

Officials talk on a regular basis but the UK government has not proposed a change of policy on this issue for 70 years.

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