26 April 2010, 7:55 pm
The Intnl Consortium of UK Pensioners There are over 1million UK Pensioners living abroad. Approximately 580,000 of them get annual increases but about 520.000 others, like us. Do not ! WHY? We all paid the same NI Contributions…….. They can’t say it would be too expensive. The cost of uprating all of us to Pension parity, would come to less than one percent of the UK 's Pension Budget. Peanuts! Each UK resident over 65yrs old costs the Govt about £7000 annually in Benefits and NHS treatment. We here in Thailand cost NOTHING! The UK is the only OECD country that does not provide equal Pensions to all it’s Citizens, regardless of the place they choose to live in. It’s a disgrace! Please add your voice to the International Consortium that is fighting for you to get more money, by contacting – Jim Tilley on jimtilley@bigpond.com. Jim leads the group, British Pensions in Australia, (www.bpia.org.au) but he will happily include us from Thailand in his membership. It will only cost you 20 Australian Dollars a year. A good investment. For more info and to sign a petition that will be sent to Parliament, go to the official website www.pension-parity-uk.com and follow the prompts at "how to help" Parity would give us all an immediate Pension increase and help to alleviate the problems and hardship caused by the poor Thai/Pound exchange rate. So lets go for it! PS. We may even get it backdated to the day you left UK ?... Read More »
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