Liverpool Lou

Er, yes, it does...it is not fraud.

They can ask for evidence of your living there via passport entry/leaving stamps.

Nothing to do with party affiliations, all Conservative governments have had exactly the same attitude for the last 70 years also.

You seem to be assuming that all pensioners are renters.

That is incorrect.

It has not been swept under the carpet, it has been discussed several times following petitions that, after a certain number of signatures, have to be brought up. Being denied is not being swept under the carpet

Another fairy story, or a one-off that was probably justified, or there's a lot more to it.

That is not fraud. You may not like it but it is not fraud.

Gawd...

Please explain.

Why? A registered letter to the UK only costs somewhere around a couple of hundred baht.

They're not, they're only asking for the banks' cooperation in fraud cases, they are not asking banks (or weren't, some are saying that the law was not enacted) to advise details of the bank account otherwise.

Huh? 28 days is four weeks, so it must be paid on the same day of the week, if it wasn't, the period wouldn't always be 28 days! Mine has hit my bank here every fourth Wednesday for eight years with the odd exception of a day's delay due to public holidays but it always reverts back to a Wednesday after a late payment.

They're having a good laugh at those who were/are now shltting themselves

What?

It is not a fraud, the government makes it perfectly clear to those who chose to live overseas and accept the condition.

Me too, but I think that we know, deep down, that it will never happen, there's not enough pressure, nor incentive for that.

If you're referring to Asean Now, it is not a news organisation, it's a forum that re-publishes 3rd parties' articles.

Philippines...and you have to be able to prove that you live there. I don't believe that there is a qualifying period of time that you have to be there, as soon as your pension application is approved you will start getting payments.

Those pensions would be superannuation occupational pensions (or whatever is the proper term for them), they would not be able to receive the state pensions if they resided overseas. Other people with occupational pension schemes can also receive them abroad.

Well said.

They'll only be able to do that if you are suspected of fraud, as the OP clearly stated, so you'll have nothing to worry about; if you do have that to worry about, then tough titty, you know who to blame!

Those would be the people who chose to live in a country in which UK state pension increases are not payable, a downside that is well-known and addressed openly on government websites and it has been that way for more than 70 years. Perhaps those people should have gone to a different country where their increases would be available.

I asked whether you would work for Trump in arrears, when you questioned my claim every lawyer working for him demands payment up front. No, you did not, there is nothing from you on this thread to that effect. However, I would and you cannot claim it to be factual that every lawyer requires payment up front, suggesting he needs to pay everything up front. Having to pay a retainer is different, if that is what you refer to, and is normal in cases that will require a lot of lawyer hours, all lawyers require that, it not something that is peculiar to Trump and his lawyers.

No, that was not reported at all, completely the opposite, in fact... "One employee reportedly pushed Mr. Chandhok outside, where an unidentified man then allegedly struck him, causing him to fall and sustain further injuries. witness mentioned that the employee’s aggressive language escalated the situation, and the outside man’s assault caused Mr. Chandhok to fall down the store’s steps, breaking his leg".