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JamesP wrote on Mon Nov 28, 2022 1:40am:
My wife and I got the letters raising our state pension age 65 to 67 and 60 to 67 around 1996. Obviously well before Brexit.
When the UK was part of the EC, before Brexit, people retiring or retired in an EU country did not have to worry that their pensions COULD be frozen. It simply was not an issue if you retired to an EU country. ...
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The very fact that the UK is the worst economic performing major European economy is Brexit related. It made the current downturn much worse.
I don't complain about the UK and blame Brexit as you state. I am more than willing to listen to any person who can show Brexit was worthwhile, for anyone. Frankly I can't see a single tangible area improved by our leaving the EU. It amazed me how many people voted for it, even some expats!
Honestly, I'm not trying to be inflammatory. I appreciate how much an emotive issue Brexit became. I simply would like a supporter of Brexit to outline the positives, the actual quantitative positives their win brought them.
I can list what we lost after Brexit quite easily. I can't see a single gain.
Just to be clear, this issue, that of annual pension increases, as per the original poster, is indeed very very Brexit related. The increase was once set in stone as part and parcel of our then EU membership. Now its up in the air, yet another kick in the teeth to the UK population irrespective of how they voted.
The pension triple lock was brought in in 2010 by the Conservative/Liberal coalition government.
There have for a long time been rules around payment of pension to people living overseas which include non payment of increases in UK pension to people living in countries that don't have agreements with the UK. It is clear that EEA countries do have an agreement with the UK.
Nothing to do with Brexit. Again.
