It's been announced that pensioners in the EU, Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein and Switzerland will continue to get inflation-linked pension increases following Brexit.  This simply blows apart successive governments' (utterly irrational) stance that there must be a reciprocal agreement with the country concerned for an increase to be paid.  Not, of course that I'm expecting the government to appreciate the hypocrisy of their position and give all pensioners the increase.

I have it on reliable authority that we will be getting the rises here in Thailand , just after all PC laws in the UK are repealed and pigs fly 

3 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

I have it on reliable authority that we will be getting the rises here in Thailand , just after all PC laws in the UK are repealed and pigs fly 

 

As soon as that? I was expecting to have to wait a lot longer.

I just wonder whether whoever made this announcement was making the heroic assumption that a reciprocal agreement would, indeed, be in place post Brexit. If this did not turn out to be the case for whatever reason, then words might well have to be eaten, much to the annoyance of pensioners living in the EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, of course. But at least it would then result in some level playing field as regards eligibility (or, rather, non-eligibility) for the annual "triple-lock" increases.

Some citation of the source of this announcement would help to evaluate whether it is ever likely to become a reality.

 

I did not think that conditions of any agreements with the EU were anywhere close to being reliably established, but I could be wrong?

19 minutes ago, partington said:

Some citation of the source of this announcement would help to evaluate whether it is ever likely to become a reality.

 

I did not think that conditions of any agreements with the EU were anywhere close to being reliably established, but I could be wrong?

 

http://www.moneyobserver.com/news/13-09-2017/state-pension-increases-will-continue-uk-citizens-living-eu

 

Or you could have spent 10 seconds using Google.

I like to delegate.

Luck of the Irish .555

On 9/17/2017 at 3:50 PM, Oxx said:

 

http://www.moneyobserver.com/news/13-09-2017/state-pension-increases-will-continue-uk-citizens-living-eu

 

Or you could have spent 10 seconds using Google.

Or you could simply have gone the extra few feet in the first place instead of expecting us all to play the Google-guessing-game.

 

"Walsh points out that while any Brexit deal will have to be approved by the UK Parliament, EU national governments and the European Parliament, the fact they have been resolved indicates they are seen as uncontroversial."

 

By my book this statement counts as a heroic assumption!