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7-May-2020 –  BBC News and BBC Today – Calls to end frozen pensions ahead of VE Day 75th Anniversary. Read about this and the latest news on the UK State Pension by clicking here. Help us achieve pension parity by donating to the ICBP, British Pensions in Australia, the Canadian Alliance of British Pensioners , or the British Caribbean Pensioners Association.

Retirement should be all about doing the things that make life worthwhile, not walking hand in hand with poverty.....

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75th ANNIVERSARY OF VE DAY

“OUR EXPAT FROZEN PENSIONERS FOUGHT FOR YOU – AND NOW WE NEED YOU TO FIGHT FOR US”

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BBC Today Program: Interview with Inez Minc (97) and Anne Puckridge (95) ahead of the 75th anniversary of VE Day.

BBC News: VE Day anniversary: Calls to end frozen pensions for WW2 veterans abroad

The Sun News: Campaigners call to end frozen pensions for World War II heroes

Dundee Messenger: VE Day Anniversary: Calls to end frozen pensions for WW2 veterans abroad

The Express: Fight to end poverty for heroes who retired abroad

The Mirror: FROZEN OUT – 500,000 cut of from state pension rises

Windrush...and Frozen Pensions

“…another stain on our country’s much vaunted sense of fairness and equality” – Lord Randall, speaking out on Windrush victims having their state pension frozen

CURRENT NEWS

The Express: State pension rises but over 500,000 retirees stuck with frozen pension – has yours risen?

 The Mirror: Man, 80, who thought he wasn’t entitled to state pension gets shock £140,000 lump sum

The Express: State pension age but not yet claimed pension? You could get up to £300 – but MUST act now

 

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Number of Frozen Pensioners - as at August 2019 (DWP)

Rank	Country	Number of Pensioners	Av. weekly frozen pension	Pensioners Receiving < £20 pw	Av. weekly pension for those getting < £20 pw
1	Australia	228,192	£48.03	36,224	£11.86
2	Canada	128,041	£44.87	23,518	£12.87
3	New Zealand	64,841	£44.92	18,867	£7.82
4	South Africa	32,075	£55.39	3,959	£11.07
5	Japan	6,512	£45.44	1,832	£11.84
6	Thailand	5,228	£119.99	93	£11.34
7	India	4,029	£49.28	1,048	£9.46
8	Pakistan	2,769	£47.41	632	£10.75
9	Hong Kong	2,166	£83.25	105	£10.57
10	Malaysia	2,095	£77.17	258	£6.22
11	Nigeria	1,652	£28.74	574	£6.52
12	Trinidad & Tobago	1,343	£54.11	257	£8.03
13	Republic of Yemen	1,291	£43.18	190	£15.84
14	Bangladesh	1,172	£39.24	377	£11.67
15	Sri Lanka	1,113	£58.25	275	£7.79
16	Grenada	955	£76.03	75	£9.99
17	Zimbabwe	924	£47.08	159	£11.47
18	St Lucia	855	£75.58	64	£10.56
19	Ghana	821	£54.14	214	£6.77
20	Singapore	816	£87.53	72	£9.33
21	Brazil	797	£77.98	84	£11.22
22	Kenya	657	£78.14	61	£9.07
23	United Arab Emirates	623	£103.96	19	£11.46
24	St Vincents & Grenadines	474	£79.13	26	£11.75
25	Mexico	461	£74.20	42	£13.47
26	State Union of Serbia and Montenegro *	388	£49.64	186	£9.56
27	South Korea	375	£41.37	131	£12.14
28	Monaco	369	£107.98	26	£9.37
29	Indonesia	339	£104.11	12	£11.86
30	Antigua	323	£73.19	36	£9.91
31	Chile	308	£70.99	41	£9.60
32	Nevis, St Kitts-Nevis	307	£74.34	19	£10.15
33	China People's Republic	305	£98.56	26	£12.12
34	Egypt	277	£76.36	24	£9.55
35	Dom Commonwealth (Dominica)	273	£78.56	20	£13.23
36	Argentina	258	£64.50	34	£9.84
37	Bahamas	258	£64.77	31	£9.53
38	Guyana	253	£54.72	52	£9.63
39	Colombia	238	£85.49	17	£9.59
40	Cayman Islands	194	£87.28	8	£11.84
41	Morocco	183	£71.91	32	£8.53
42	Andorra	170	£94.14	11	£11.62
43	Zambia	166	£71.21	16	£11.93
44	Botswana	150	£76.84	10	£10.80
45	Seychelles	149	£79.61	6	£13.36
46	Peru	131	£86.76	12	£13.25
47	Bahrain	130	£96.88	5	£6.74
48	Lebanon	130	£87.29	6	£12.75
49	Russian Federation	126	£78.75	21	£11.42
50	Tunisia	122	£89.56	17	£7.32
51	Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia *	121	£20.85	85	£7.58
52	Vietnam	117	£124.96	0	£0.00
53	Oman	113	£91.25	6	£12.07
54	St Helena & Deps	111	£88.26	5	£8.65
55	Taiwan	100	£100.48	0	£0.00
56	Belize	95	£84.74	8	£12.71
57	Saudi Arabia	95	£85.89	9	£9.53
58	Jordan	93	£64.89	9	£11.23
59	Namibia	90	£69.16	9	£11.78
60	Swaziland	90	£75.03	5	£16.09
61	Costa Rica	88	£83.56	8	£13.96
62	Fiji	86	£72.75	5	£18.36
63	Ukraine	80	£119.03	8	£13.08
64	Ecuador	78	£86.41	7	£12.84
65	Falkland Islands & Dep	76	£86.63	0	£0.00
66	Malawi	74	£73.73	0	£0.00
67	Tanzania	74	£87.39	7	£10.91
68	Uganda	67	£94.51	0	£0.00
69	Gambia	65	£87.84	9	£9.87
70	Uruguay	62	£74.54	10	£12.80
71	Anguilla	60	£68.00	7	£13.84
72	Qatar	59	£113.62	0	£0.00
73	Montserrat	58	£69.05	5	£12.66
74	Kampuchea	53	£108.43	0	£0.00
75	Panama	50	£95.75	0	£0.00
76	Virgin Islands (British)	47	£88.15	5	£11.75
77	Antilles (Netherlands)	44	£63.62	6	£14.13
78	Vanuatu	44	£76.67	5	£4.37
79	Dominican Republic	42	£108.20	0	£0.00
80	Nepal	42	£64.93	7	£12.14
81	Bolivia	37	£89.24	0	£0.00
82	Iran	35	£66.49	8	£10.23
83	Venezuela	35	£64.62	5	£14.55
84	Sierra Leone	34	£63.16	7	£11.02
85	Kuwait	29	£95.96	0	£0.00
86	Ethiopia	28	£92.29	0	£0.00
87	Brunei	25	£113.41	0	£0.00
88	Paraguay	25	£71.07	0	£0.00
89	Somalia	24	£32.81	10	£15.04
90	Republic of Georgia	20	£116.70	0	£0.00
91	Nicaragua	19	£81.72	6	£14.43
92	Turks & Caicos Islands	19	£116.48	0	£0.00
93	Laos	18	£97.33	0	£0.00
94	Algeria	16	£59.48	10	£9.93
95	Albania	15	£111.20	0	£0.00
96	New Caledonia	15	£75.18	0	£0.00
97	Republic of Belarus	15	£104.90	0	£0.00
98	El Salvador	14	£80.00	0	£0.00
99	Senegal	14	£82.11	0	£0.00
100	Serbia	14	£109.24	0	£0.00
101	Tours (Individuals on Tour)	14	£130.73	0	£0.00
102	Faroe Islands	13	£37.35	5	£13.49
103	Honduras	13	£73.16	0	£0.00
104	Macau	13	£90.84	0	£0.00
105	Tonga	13	£71.36	0	£0.00
106	Cape Verde Islands	10	£25.52	0	£0.00
107	Cuba	10	£79.40	0	£0.00
108	Republic of Azerbaijan	10	£153.93	0	£0.00
109	Libya	9	£52.57	0	£0.00
110	Mozambique	8	£62.97	0	£0.00
111	Republic of Kyrgyzstan	8	£73.98	0	£0.00
112	Syria	8	£39.53	0	£0.00
113	Cook Islands	7	£56.00	0	£0.00
114	Djibouti	7	£28.58	0	£0.00
115	Iraq	7	£94.61	0	£0.00
116	Republic of Kazakhstan	7	£106.94	0	£0.00
117	Solomon Islands	7	£106.55	0	£0.00
118	Benin	6	£77.81	0	£0.00
119	Burma (Myanmar)	6	£97.05	0	£0.00
120	Guatemala	6	£82.35	0	£0.00
121	Liberia	6	£68.48	0	£0.00
122	Malagasy Republic	6	£66.65	0	£0.00
123	Republic of Armenia	6	£48.91	0	£0.00
124	Tahiti	6	£77.00	0	£0.00
125	Togo	6	£48.61	0	£0.00
126	United States Minor Outlying Islands	6	£54.56	0	£0.00
127	Western Samoa	6	£71.53	0	£0.00
128	Aruba	5	£60.29	0	£0.00
129	Ascension Island	5	£114.48	0	£0.00
130	Cameroon	5	£55.03	0	£0.00
131	Greenland	5	£23.21	0	£0.00
132	Lesotho	5	£72.43	0	£0.00
133	Mauritania	5	£95.28	0	£0.00
134	Republic of Moldova	5	£124.94	0	£0.00
135	Sabah	5	£74.37	0	£0.00
136	San Marino	5	£37.20	0	£0.00
137	Sudan	5	£66.95	0	£0.00
138	Surinam	5	£139.57	0	£0.00
999	Total	498,828	£49.17	90,100	£11.10

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International Consortium of British Pensioners - Chair: John Duffy

British Pensions in Australia (BPIA)

Chair: Brian Owles

Canadian Alliance of British Pensioners (CABP)

Chair: Ian Andexser

British Caribbean Pensioners Association (BCPA)

Chair: John Duffy

APPG on Frozen British Pensions  Chair: Sir Roger Gale, MP

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BCPA, BPiA, the CABP, the ICBP and the APPG believe that all UK state pensioners – no matter where they choose to retire overseas – ought to be paid the pension that they have contributed towards and are rightfully entitled to receive. Help us fight this battle as every voice helps!

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