State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

(asked on 4th November 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of freezing state pensions on British citizens living overseas.


Answered by
Emma Reynolds Portrait
Emma Reynolds
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 11th November 2024

No assessment has been made.

The UK's policy on the up-rating of the UK State Pension for recipients living overseas is a longstanding one. The UK state pension is payable worldwide without regard to nationality and is uprated abroad where we have a legal requirement to do so.

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