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    latest requirements by DWP UK

    in Home Country Forum

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    1 hour ago, steve187 said:

    if you were married when you retired prior to 2010 you would have received extra money for the wife, ( "adult dependency increase") people that are in receipt of this extra money around £70 a week will cease to receive it after April next year

    I only just made it ,but yes after april next year my pension ,drops by 70 pounds a week . still i am sure the cash is needed for those poor immigrants to our fair land ,who paid in nothing,what do we who paid in all our lives matter?

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    Importing Personal Effects - Retirement Visa

    in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits

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    3 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

    There is no duty free allowance for retirement. It is only for Thais and those working here.

    See: http://www.customs.go.th/cont_strc_simple.php?ini_content=individual_F01_160426_01&ini_menu=menu_individual_submenu_02&lang=en&left_menu=menu_individual_submenu_02_160421_01

    I came here with the clothes on my back ,mind you the wife brought ,half a container load ,no charges whatsoever . no problems either .

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    UK Pensions (2018)

    in Home Country Forum

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    On 10/31/2019 at 9:03 PM, Bruntoid said:

    Why would they need to go to all that bother ? 
     

    Presumably anyone not declaring they have shipped out of the U.K. will be getting their pensions paid into a U.K. bank account, so it then follows thats then transferred to their Thai account yes ? 
     

    So given HMRC now have full access to swoop into your UK account and can spot the blindingly obvious why all the subterfuge ? 
     

    Serious question ...

    why would they check a bank account ,unless they suspected you ,and what if you are not transfering money from it?

    New train link to town

    in Pattaya

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    It is being built by the Charoen Pokphand Group.  They said that it will be tied in with a huge new mall development they are planning to build.  A 480,000 sqm complex in Pattaya somewhere.  I googled around but have not been able to figure out where that will be.
     
    https://insideretail.asia/2019/07/05/charoen-pokphand-group-to-build-pattaya-mall/
     
    https://www.chiangraitimes.com/thailand-national-news/news-asia-thailand/high-speed-rail-link-from-bangkok-to-pattaya-green-lighted/
     
    If you think Pattaya has grown too big too fast already you haven't seen anything yet.
    Oh boy another mall ,Pattaya needs it so badly,

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    UK police find 39 bodies in a truck container

    in World News

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     people like us who paid in for years (44 in my case) get their pension frozen on the day we get it and our dependants benifit stopped in april next year ,making us even poorer . yet illegal immigrants ,get housed fed and a cash payment ,then fight for years at out expense not to get sent back where they came from ,to all the do gooders ,is that fair? what a silly question isnt it?
    by the way ,they should not have died ,rip.
    Why cant all the virtue signalers see this,we can we dont hate,just know we have worked hard for our lives ,we cant support everyone.

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    UK police find 39 bodies in a truck container

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    It's very difficult to catch them as they are kept hidden in safe houses and not allowed out.
     
    You'll be pleased to hear that most of the survivors were deported back to China.
    What do you mean difficult to catch them,they were working openly on Morecombe bay picking cockles,as most low paid workers are working openly,picking fruit ,veg ,and on large farms ,just raid them daily .

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    UK police find 39 bodies in a truck container

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    Correct. The unit hadn't been in Bulgaria since 2017. Bought by an Irish individual/company who kept Bulgarian registration to avoid taxes.
     
    Zero evidence (as yet) to the nationality or sex of the deceased or where they were loaded into the trailer.
     
    That won't stop TV Brexiteers making up the facts to further their political ideology. 39 souls have died horribly. Shame on those trying to make political capital from this tragedy. Have they no shame?
    What has this to do with Brexit,? Why trot out this rubbish ,its terrible that they died but face it they were illegal immigrants ,trying to sneak into a country.this is illegal and anyone who disagrees should not insult others just because they wished to leave the EU ,this has nothing to do with that,

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    More manufacturers relocating to Thailand from China, HK

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    I don't understand the Thai market at all....take the lazyboy recliners...a leather model costs 60-90k baht, assembled (or built?) in Thailand.
     
    In Europe they cost 1100 euro = 37.000 baht. included 21% vat.
     
    https://www.eijerkamp.nl/la-z-boy-fauteuil-pinnacle-22738.html
    Its the same with some of the cheap packet meals made here,cost over 40 baht yet when i was on holiday in Britain 1 pound in the pound store,yet they have to be flown there and import duty paid ,crazy.

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