State pension: Therese Coffey addresses why half a million people are missing out on boost
It is estimated more than 500,000 UK state pensioners have found themselves unable to receive an annual increase to their state pension payments each year. This is due to where they live, as the state pension can be impacted for those who live overseas.
“Your pension will go up to the current rate if you return to live in the UK.”
The issue – which has become known as frozen pensions – was addressed in the House of Commons today, during Live Work and Pensions Questions.
Labour MP for Streatham, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, said in the House of Commons: “82-year-old Monica Philip emigrated to the UK as part of the Windrush generation and worked for 37 years as a civil servant.
“She now lives on a UK state pension of just £74.11 a week because she returned to Antigua to care for her ailing mother.
