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Update - Well life goes on, i seem to be dealing with my urinary problems even though i'm not peeing any significant amounts but its obviously doing the job, no infections and urinating a couple of times a night and 5/6 times a day. Now i've been taking these tablets for a few months now and like you i don't really think they are doing anything, maybe i should stop taking and see what happens, what do you think ?

Yes indeed BUT your wifey could continue to receive your SP until such time that a POL is required, that could be up to 2 years and more if my experience is anything to go by. I've registered our marriage in the UK and the BE is aware also of our marriage but if nobody advises them of my death the SP continues to be paid and what chance do you think they've got of getting it refunded ? I think the BE would no doubt pass it on to eventually end up with the DWP. I think the only chance of it not ending up in the hands of the DWP is if Thailands authorities fail to do their job. Whatever i've told wifey to just keep stum and let them continue to pay the SP, i have no concern considering their refusal to pay me any increases, tit for tat ehh lol

So how does the DWP get notified of our demise ?

The last time i did a POL and posted it EMS it cost me 1300bht to the UK from memory, how do you manage to get it for only 200bht ?

Yes indeed, i'm a retired Magistrate and sign many POL for mates, like you i don't have any stamp. Now why can't i sign my own ? lol

Thankyou, perhaps i should have indicated that our UK state pension is paid 13 times a year not 12 times (monthly) thats why we receive 2 payments in one month of the year.

Your total pension income from whatever sources be it state pension, company pensions is TAXED once it exceeds the personal allowance of £12570. Your state pension is paid 4 weekly not monthly so you receive 53 weeks payments in a year.

I think you are missing the point, i'm NOT getting any annual increase but HMRC for whatever reason are assuming that i am and taxing me accordingly and at 40% !!! £10 per week x 53 = £530 x 40% = £212 income tax per year that i am paying that i'm not liable for as i'm not receiving the £10 per week SP increase.

18 years. I think you will find that the 15 year has been abolished and you can now vote irrespective of how many years you have lived outside the UK. I did consider contacting my MP but i think that would be a long winded way of addressing the issue.

Ford Popular E93A, it was given to me by an uncle when i was 17yo. I had it repainted from the traditional black and drove it around for a couple of years before selling it for £25 in 1969. Apologies for the pic quality.

Thanks guys for your help, i appreciate. I'll try the HMRC webchat first as ''Mutt Daeng'' suggests and hopefully i'll get the same positive result, if not i'll lodge a complaint as ''topt'' did as their piss poor response surely deserves. Final solution will be to write to them as ''Moonlover'' recco's. I'll update thread in due course. I can't for the life of me understand why this is continually happening year after year despite it being corrected in the past, as ''MartinL states ''its FROZEN'' all the time i am living in Thailand and i certainly have no intention of returning to the UK with my Thai wifey to live. They really don't appear to GAF about us guys despite us being in some cases considerable tax payers, just the same as when ''i pop me clogs'' and wifey claims her 50% widows pension from my private company scheme. She's entitled to the personal allowance every year but has to claim it EVERY year when nothing changes from year to year !!! Rant over lol, once again THANKS GUYS.

Yes indeed it has but i'm interested in up to date info as to a solution to prevent it from happening. I no longer have to submit a tax return so that opportunity is no longer available to me. My biggest frustration is i have been contacting both the HMRC and the DWP for a solution by phone at my expence and neither of them appear capable or interested in sorting this problem out and its been like that for years.

Obviously if HMRC believe i am receiving the state pension increases then they will tax my income accordingly. My State Pension was incorrectly increased from £124 pw to £135 pw for the current tax year 2024/2025. This issue has nothing to do with Thai taxation at the moment but obviously could do so in the future.

I'm having extreme difficulty in getting the UK HMRC to recognise that i don't receive the yearly increases to my state pension as i'm resident in Thailand. Now this problem has been evident every year for some inexplicable reason and i have to contact HMRC and the DWP and attempt to get it sorted which always proves difficult. This current year 2024-2025 is really proving difficult despite numerous telephone calls to the both of them. Why oh why this is a problem is beyond me, neither of them appear to want to correct the problem, either now or in the future so the problem just continues. Is anyone else suffering the same problems ? i can't believe i'm the only one !!!

and WHO is going to do that ?

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Yep thats exactly the tablets he's prescribed 😒

Well i finally got to the point where my urine retention was a big problem so i went to my local urologist and he advised a camera up my willie to see any problems, no issues other than my bladder was showing signs of inflammation so he advised a catheter for two weeks. He did state like you @xylophone that it would appear my bladder is not functioning correctly and he prescribed meds for 4 weeks that are supposed to improve your bladder function, I'm due to see him again tomorrow, i'll report back.

SUT Government Hospital in Korat used to have an American doctor Dr Ryan Lloyd, i saw him along with a load of other farangs for a couple of years, it was like visiting your GP in your home country, he was brill. I'm sad to say he's moved on and is living elsewhere in Thailand with his Thai wife and children, he obviously was fluent in Thai, he is sorely missed.

I have exactly the same issue but it does'nt appear to be causing me any problems at the moment, how long that will continue nobody knows. I'm not suffering any infections so i just carry on regardless. My thinking is until i have infections i'll just carry on but like you say i don't know if i'm damaging my kidneys. I had a kidney check a few months ago and they were fine. I'll be off to BNH hospital in Bangkok to see Urologist Dr Suntchai if i ever need to, they at least do more corrective procedures than just TURP which is the case where i live here in Korat. Going back to the UK is indeed an option, at least you can trust the advice you will receive, i have my doubts here after my experience in January 2022. Good luck, please keep us informed.

How long is the Certificate of Residence valid for ? TIA

Yes i do, Ghostery adblocker but i've had that for a long time and FF was always ok with it.

Just found out the reason why - I was using Firefox to sign in and it would not allow so i used Chrome and BINGO it allowed me to sign in ??????? Anyone know why ?

Anyone else having problems logging in to their Wise Account ? i go to my signing in and my email address and password comes up so i click on ''sign in'' and nothing happens.

Thanks for your help, I'm sure i've got a different box and remote to you and its a real problem with Truevisions keep changing these items. I can't access anything like what you are saying but the good news is i had the engineer around yesterday for 2 hours trying to sort it out and eventually he succeeded by eventually using another new box and constantly contacting his dept on the phone. Now here's the anomaly the engineer asked to look/operate my other old box upstairs which we duly did and as per the last few years of use my old box has English on channel 600 English Premier League but on the new box its Thai and it can't be changed, this confirmed to him what i have been saying, its an absolute FU !!!!!!!!!! He stated he could'nt do anything else to ensure English on the new box but i checked all the channels i regularly use and i have English other than channel 600 but no probs cos channel 602 is a repeat of channel 600 and its in English. Why oh why Truevisions insist on keep changing these boxes and remotes is beyond me but i think i know the reason why.............. THE COST TO THEM and they are looking for the cheapest option.