BritManToo

Most banks have now moved to facial recognition (+OTP) to authorize new payees. Agree, the card + pin gen were a pain in the butt, especially as I only had a photo of my card.

Like I said, 16 years later and my bank haven't done that. But I'm sure a call from my UK landline could sort that out, if it ever happens. Don't forget to use your banks special over 60s call number, they answer immediately and are especially patient with you.

Just thinking of a wine cooler and a joint, it'll help me forget about UK officialdom.

Giffgaff SIM for UK bank OTP, you also need to send an SMS ever 4 months to keep it active, but they remind you if you forget. 10 quid call credit has lasted me 2+ years and I still have 8 pounds credit left. If you're as paranoid as me, 20 pounds every 3 months for a Skype UK landline number, you can choose the town it appears to be in, they can call you as if you live in the UK. But you need to pay outgoing call charges, again 10 pounds lasts a long time.

Leave your address at your existing home. They won't check if you live there or not and your credit check at that address will still be good, if you offer no new UK address. I've done that, it it's worked for the past 16 years.

Yeah, but we all moved to Canada when you got independence.

Sounds perfect, Truck all the illegals to Denver, then build a wall around it to keep them in. Everybody happy, and no need to spend any money on deportation.

I use a Kindle every day, way better than a phone or tablet for reading. All my books I download from Z Library or Mobilism.org onto my PC, then transfer to Kindle using a data cable and Calibre Library. Format doesn't matter, Calibre fixes that on the go.

Don't think they recorded such things before Brexit. I used to walk on and off the ferry UK/France and didn't even take my passport out of my pocket, nobody seemed to care. But you may be right, the UK authorities still think I'm in the UK, so maybe it's just a glitch with my data.

Why not tell them you inherited the money (millions) from your parents who died 20 years ago? And you've had no income of any kind since the day you inherited.

Me too, everything 'scrupulously sourced' tends to turn out to be socialist government propaganda.

If you're unsure, you should tell DWP you're unsure, else that would be a lie.

If you're gonna lie, why not just lie about where you live and get the full pension all the time?

It's a photo of my former bosses wife, I think she was about 25 at the time, and had already recorded the TV series, "Adventures of a call girl" with plenty of nudity, as was her appearance in "Penny Dreadful". About the only wife of someone I knew that I ever desired (which is why I use her as my avatar).

You might be able to tell that, but I can't. In fact I freely admit I have no idea what a woman thinks, or why she does stuff. All that vindictive/destructive/harmful stuff they do after it's over, no idea either. And wanting to you harm you, harm their kids, harm themselves, completely inexplicable.

"Habitually resident" is to do with your future intentions, and not the number of days you spend in the UK. If your thoughts are, "I'll spend a year in the UK, then I'll move back to Thailand", and you state that, then you would be habitually resident in Thailand, and when you returned to Thailand, your pension would be returned to the payment you received on your first stay in Thailand. If on the other hand, if you returned to the UK with the intention of staying there forever, then simply change your mind later, your pension would be frozen at the rate you next left the UK. Australia pensions work on the same theory, tell them you are going back for 2 years just to claim your OZ pension and you lose it when you leave. You have to intend to live the rest of your life in Australia to get it.

You can access WISE from more than one phone, and your PC, I currently have it on 3 mobiles.

Those votes, weren't in previous elections either, so did 14M people who never voted before 2020 decide this 2024 election wasn't so important?

Why do you need a physical WISE card when the app allows you to make two virtual cards?

Landlord, tell them you'll move once you have your deposit back. Address, nobody in Thailand ever notifies anyone of address changes, so don't bother.

Just say no, and make stuff as difficult for them as possible.

Even worse if I suggested COVID vaccine didn't work, masks didn't work, and lockins at home didn't work. Not to mention climate change, sea level rise or carbon dioxide. I'm not suggesting that of course, because I fear the reaction.

I'd like to tell you, but then I'd be saying it, which is a worse offence than thinking it.

Looks good, I'll watch that .........

I assumed they're dumping their stock in case it becomes worthless on Jan 1st. Fear of new laws is endemic at the moment, I didn't buy a new car this year because they might have taxed me on the transfer of money. And the Thai car industry is crashing (so other expats must be also fearing the law). And wanting my UK bank details, I'll be in the Philippines before I agree to that, Which'll be another Thai bank house foreclosure, a single mom and a fatherless kid. The Thai government seem hell bent on economic suicide at the moment.