hotandsticky

Nobody cares about us and there is definitely no empathy, for our position, from those living in the UK. As you suggested, we have made our beds so we must lie in them.......

Unlucky, 10 years would have got her something.

My money is on the Thai Treasury still reporting positive growth figures...............................

Ah!........ and there you have the answer!

See the above post from @prakhonchai nickas I understand it she would still need to be living in the UK to claim.

She will if she has made contributions in her own right. The UK domicile rule was sneaked in in April 2016 in the Pensions Act

From gov.uk re bereavement payments:- Your partner You could be eligible if your partner either: paid National Insurance contributions for at least 25 weeks in one tax year since 6 April 1975 died because of an accident at work or a disease caused by work When they died you must have been: under State Pension age living in the UK or a country that pays bereavement benefits You cannot claim Bereavement Support Payment if you’re in prison. https://www.gov.uk/bereavement-support-payment

I don't believe so. I will happily stand corrected but I believe that you have to be domiciled in the UK to claim. From the House of Commons notes on the Pensions Bill:- Bereavement support payment Steve Webb: I beg to move amendment 1, page 14, line 11, after ‘dies,’ insert— ‘() the person is ordinarily resident in Great Britain, or a specified territory, when the spouse or civil partner dies,’.

Great voice...R. I. P.

Unmarried partner certainly - I think I referred to wife/partner. Gays cannot marry in Thailand so there is a perfect example of a financially dependent nomination; another might be a minor child (you wouldn't get approved for a 40 year old daughter). I have been together with my GF for 16 years and we have no intention of marrying. The trustees accepted my nomination for her 15 years ago.

If the 'widow' has settled in the UK and has British citizenship, she is entitled to a state pension when she reaches age 67/68. provided she has a minimum of 10 National Insurance credits. For each credit, she would currently receive 1/35th of the state pension, likely to be around £200 a week from next April. If she lives in Thailand it will be frozen.

There is a lot of information out there, this is one example from Royal London:- https://www.royallondon.com/about-us/members/understanding-your-finances/your-personal-finances/can-you-leave-a-pension-to-your-children/ In simple terms, for most of us with occupational pensions no one can inherit YOUR pension. However, the pension trustees should allow the nomination of a named beneficiary who will be your spouse/partner ie a Widow's Pension.. Where there is a dependent child the trustees may approve payments to them. If you have an unused pension pot, that can be bequeathed. There is no inheritable benefit from the UK State Pension and Bereavements Payments can only be claimed by a widow if she is domiciled in the UK.

Not if she lives in Thailand.

....and the costs for handling cash are.......?

My money is on visa exempt........

Not to mention the pies - and friendly local hostelries........

My money is on Battambang.....................

You do understand, don't you,? that it doesn't actually work like that!

Not if you have a modicum of discipline...............or more than enough not to worry about it.

The only nonsense is the bleating about having another one because the last one didn't go the way you wanted. I think generation was referred to, rather than lifetime - so sit back and wait, but you might not be around for the next one anyway.

I am sure that you will be.

Dream on..................... But don't waste your life waiting for it.

No evidence of that. But I appreciate your concern.

Not by the sounds of it.

That can't be right? I have been reading on here for 16 years that the Thai Baht is going to Hell in a handbasket......