Kwasaki

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

Surely a Pension should only be paid to someone who has contributed financially to the system.

Just because they are married or obtained a passport should not allow them to dip into the pot.

Why not any UK wife can, a Thai wife can if she has become a British citizen it would be frozen though.

32 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said:

To answer the OP.

 

No, the wife can't get the husband's pension but she can get a Bereavement Benefit (2,000 Quid last time I checked).

Not anymore.

1 hour ago, BangkokReady said:

What I thought was more likely the case was that part of the deal of him finding himself a pretty young Asian girl a third of his age, was that she would continue to get his pension after he copped it.

That is not exactly the case that guy you mention was thick, before the UK govt done away with Thai wife benefits a Thai wife would get benefits at death of her husband lasting up to 1 year after that in the case of my wife at the time she would of have to wait for her UK pension until she was 66 years old.

18 minutes ago, Eff1n2ret said:

That's for the maximum, I think. This is what the DWP website says:-

To get the full basic State Pension you need a total of 30 qualifying years of National Insurance contributions or credits. This means you were either:

• working and paying National Insurance
• getting National Insurance Credits, for example for unemployment, sickness or as a parent or carer
• paying voluntary National Insurance contributions

If you have fewer than 30 qualifying years, your basic State Pension will be less than £137.60 per week but you might be able to top up by paying voluntary National Insurance contributions.

Yeah understand min & max .????

18 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Private pensions can go to the wife

Not all that has to be arranged at the time to receive it. 

1 minute ago, Denim said:

I think an urn on top of the fridge would be more sensible.

But if your cooked maybe some Thai might report the death. ????

3 minutes ago, Eff1n2ret said:

To maintain ILR you have to be away from the UK for less than two years. 

Regarding pension, there is no widows state pension, and if you lived and worked in the UK you must have, as best I remember, at least ten years of contributions to qualify for a minimum pension. My wife fell a little short of that, so I bought extra years to top her up above the minimum. There is a limit to the extra years you can buy, but I can't remember what that is.

For a minimum pension you need 35 years to get some kind 

pension is 10 years. 

13 minutes ago, PFMills said:

MartinL    does this also apply to us as my wife has a UK Passport as well as a Thai one, but never worked in the UK 

Is she a Brit citizen. 

Listening to Lord George Robertson on LBC UK about the withdrawal from Afghanistan,  Biden's govt have dropped a clanger but whether the people in US care is yet to be known.

2 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

done time in Afghanistan

Not so much done time but worked with Afgans 40 years ago in Saudi and Qatar the guys were such hard workers I took them with me from the toilet of Saudi to Qatar to work with me there. 

They were not like some here are describing and posted about Afgan people they were from the mountains they were from a tribe called Pathans.

The son of a village tribal leader that work with me and his men told me the Taliban would always  be in control of Afganistan but he said they didn't get bothered by Taliban and did not follow there ways there village was not accessible at certain time of the year. 

10 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I have been living in almost total isolation for over 18 months

l'm not surprised if you talk as you post. ????

7 minutes ago, Emzz21 said:

Is that possible?

I can tell you have to use a bum gun. ????

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I hope you meant "all the Brits soldiers that WERE killed for nothing".

I certainly feel for the families of the guys that died over the last 20 years, apparently for nothing, but agree that in a week it will all be old news and forgotten by most.

So difficult to answer on Afganistan I've worked with Afgans, they have more tribes in there country than the indigenous Indian people of North America before a shameful thing happened just another horror on the way. 

5 hours ago, transam said:

So did 1939-45, but it came together in the end, chin up chap....????

When commented on other boring threads " I'm beginning to miss brexit " it was only a joke. ????????

14 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Yeah, I've had similar experiences, even to the point of 2 six-packs bought from the same store on the same day tasting very different, not undrinkable, just different.  I didn't check batch numbers or whatever as I didn't think I'd need the info.

 

Six pack very Oz that. ????

1 hour ago, Dart12 said:

I've known exactly what I've wanted to find in here with keywords even...

 

It's almost impossible to find anything when searching

Well if you ain't got health insurance already I wouldn't do what I did in Thailand and get private health insurance.

There's a mod on ANF who knows a lot about health insurance in Thailand.

Only time I was ever ask that by the airline was when I only had a one way ticket. 

41 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

you might consider yourself an alien,

No I don't I am one. 

9 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

No.

It will NOT be forgotten.

I will NOT forget.

Neither will you.

A bold statement to make about me someone you don't know. 

I won't forget service men right my Dad was one. 

Didn't know about Afgans falling of aeroplanes until I heard it on LBC UK and had forgotten until you meantion it here. 

55 minutes ago, Pistachio said:

I would like the same job I have here, but in Thailand, with the same salary, I have now. 

Dream on.

3 hours ago, DUNROAMIN said:

Different types of 3 m film, like I said go to a auto retail outlet, maybe COCKPIT and ask to see different quality of film.

Well mine was free silver look from outside and getting on for 4 years no problem, I really don't know what your on about.

1 hour ago, Adiudon said:

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/hitachi-itc-i1332758445-s3329382469.html?exlaz=d_1:mm_150050845_51350205_2010350205::12:12654756915!117524295342!!!pla-294682000766!c!294682000766!3329382469!142610486&gclid=CjwKCAjw3_KIBhA2EiwAaAAlik3iuMI0WD8Dy69psLWNfGf9dV1vXjBa0_WJ9C1bf892TQWP8FkuixoCp4MQAvD_BwE

 

I do not know if this is the correct model of pump but it shows the blow up of the parts.

 

There was a choice I just picked the same on/off type 18 & 12 that's on our pump. 

On Utube a guy said if it's leaking from the base of the pressure switch where the the small screws are all around no point trying to fix it they are cheap enough just replace it.