On 5/26/2021 at 9:08 AM, maechanman said:

Anyone out there managed to apply for their UK state pension by telephone from here in Thailand using their invitation code?

My pension is due and I'm wondering will it be simpler than filling out their 26 page form for overseas claimants.

Presumably they should have my details which would negate a lot of the questions on the form.

In a phone call to a woman at the International pension centre she told me you can, i didn’t have my invitation code until after i sent the forms in. They took 30 days to get there, this was two months before my birthday, my first payment arrived two months after my birthday, definitely call them and try the invitation code first. As a byline every single single person i spoke to could not have been more helpful.

 

 

DWP updates claiming process as forms are removed from website;-

State pension UK: DWP updates claiming process as forms are removed - full details (msn.com)

Looks like no state pension rises this year according to the newspapers ,as it would cost to much,mind you the govt have said they will accept 25000 more Afghan immigrants,doubt many will be women and children,

 

 

Just listening to the Today programme on radio 4 they are discussing proposals of a compromise  2.5 per cent  increase to the state pension for the coming year.

22 minutes ago, strikingsunset said:

Just listening to the Today programme on radio 4 they are discussing proposals of a compromise  2.5 per cent  increase to the state pension for the coming year.

It was always going to be something like this.....but a compromise might be 4% next year followed by 4%  year after 

2 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

Looks like no state pension rises this year according to the newspapers ,as it would cost to much,mind you the govt have said they will accept 25000 more Afghan immigrants,doubt many will be women and children,

 

 

Over about 4 years,think 5000 first year  officially          4 billion on this lot and half a billion on OAP to unfreeze.   Fact is most UK do not want them,just UK govt telling us we have to accept them

5 hours ago, fredscats said:

It was always going to be something like this.....but a compromise might be 4% next year followed by 4%  year after 

agree

1 hour ago, strikingsunset said:

agree

looked at figures recently,if the UK govt do not implement this 8.8% rise to the OAP,a guy at 66 just retiring will lose some 81,000 pounds with compounding by the age of 82,      somebody else must have seen those figures,forget where I read them,seems one hell of a lot,keep looking tho

If they want to change it they should leave it indexed in some way.

 

e.g. the average of 2.5%, earnings growth, and inflation, in lieu of the highest of.

 

What the 2.5% represents is an increase figure which is "picked", not good going forward. could well be the earnings growth figure may reduce next year, but suspect inflation will still be pushing things along. .

The CPI is still a gradual slight devaluation anyway, CPIH is a bit better, There was a group of us discussing the price of our 80's Motorcycles when new, and used the projected CPI index as well as the R.P.I. which prevailed back then.  Very unlikely you could buy a current equivalent machine with the CPIed figure and even the RPIed figure fell a bit short, and this with all the modern engineering efficiency...????

 

 

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On 8/18/2021 at 10:15 AM, bert bloggs said:

Looks like no state pension rises this year according to the newspapers ,as it would cost to much,mind you the govt have said they will accept 25000 more Afghan immigrants,doubt many will be women and children,

 

 

We are frozen unless you somehow get the rises here!!!???

On 8/18/2021 at 12:51 PM, fredscats said:

Over about 4 years,think 5000 first year  officially          4 billion on this lot and half a billion on OAP to unfreeze.   Fact is most UK do not want them,just UK govt telling us we have to accept them

Unfreeze only another 75 YEARS TO GO and already over 75 years old ????????

On 8/18/2021 at 6:36 PM, strikingsunset said:

agree

looks like 3.5% increase is on the cards

On 8/19/2021 at 4:10 PM, jwest10 said:

We are frozen unless you somehow get the rises here!!!???

what you think there are pensioners here who have not told the dwp that they live here?

11 hours ago, ivor bigun said:

what you think there are pensioners here who have not told the dwp that they live here?

You can tell who they are, their houses have letterbox flaps on their front doors, to check if the bloke at the door is wearing a bowler hat....????

 

Another reason Boris and Rishak wanted out of the EU as one day the EU will enforce equal pension payments for all member states , quite rightly too in my opinion to ensure fairness, but too late for us in the UK now.

3 hours ago, Excel said:

Another reason Boris and Rishak wanted out of the EU as one day the EU will enforce equal pension payments for all member states , quite rightly too in my opinion to ensure fairness, but too late for us in the UK now.

if you remember they tried this but it was blocked by Tony Blair of the labour party

12 hours ago, transam said:

You can tell who they are, their houses have letterbox flaps on their front doors, to check if the bloke at the door is wearing a bowler hat....????

 

Jealousy raising its ugly head again  lol  who is at the forefront  LOL     Now reading thru past 10 years worth of less than informed quotes "I do not Lie",   lol nothing ever has been or attempted to ascertain any individual living in LoS on unfrozen pension ,but DWP were unsucessful at attempting to fix one one on a couple   I quite enjoy the fact Im here on pension close on 200 quid a week< or will be, rather than close on 100 quid a week  

 

Any pensioner can easily check facts here   FoI for one...go try it, cheap enough,,,  fact is it has, years ago,nothing to show,but up to date more than welcome  "has any OAP been apprehended in recent on unfrozen pension"  Secondly there is time scale how far claims can go, been here 15 years? potential payback at most probably a third of time     from experience 3 years, and that is for winter fuel  bad boy  ,and nothing to show from those inadvertantly making a cock up of address    Thirdy for confirmation there are hosts of pension advisory columns , hosts of them,try some for confirmation,probably get laughed at,but worth a try   Again awaiting confirmation if any bowler hatted gent has been flapping letterboxes   lol

 

Again  I quite enjoy the fact Im here on pension close on 200 quid a week< or will be, rather than close on 100 quid a week    Thank You

11 hours ago, fredscats said:

Jealousy raising its ugly head again  lol  who is at the forefront  LOL     Now reading thru past 10 years worth of less than informed quotes "I do not Lie",   lol nothing ever has been or attempted to ascertain any individual living in LoS on unfrozen pension ,but DWP were unsucessful at attempting to fix one one on a couple   I quite enjoy the fact Im here on pension close on 200 quid a week< or will be, rather than close on 100 quid a week  

 

Any pensioner can easily check facts here   FoI for one...go try it, cheap enough,,,  fact is it has, years ago,nothing to show,but up to date more than welcome  "has any OAP been apprehended in recent on unfrozen pension"  Secondly there is time scale how far claims can go, been here 15 years? potential payback at most probably a third of time     from experience 3 years, and that is for winter fuel  bad boy  ,and nothing to show from those inadvertantly making a cock up of address    Thirdy for confirmation there are hosts of pension advisory columns , hosts of them,try some for confirmation,probably get laughed at,but worth a try   Again awaiting confirmation if any bowler hatted gent has been flapping letterboxes   lol

 

Again  I quite enjoy the fact Im here on pension close on 200 quid a week< or will be, rather than close on 100 quid a week    Thank You

Good for you, I have learned that the world is full of chancers, thieves, odd-balls, fruitcakes, so crack on chap.....

 

 

2 hours ago, transam said:

Good for you, I have learned that the world is full of chancers, thieves, odd-balls, fruitcakes, so crack on chap.....

 

 

No applause please  Thank You
"In respect of pensions, fraud undermines the value of income for people at a time of life when sources of income become more limited, and the chances of financial recovery are reduced."

Now that is some statement   yes/no?  govt funded investigation,so who exactly is defrauding who?   The fraudee,defrauding the fraudster

 Not been around for a bit,never mind  here now.     I am sure you will agree that money lost by a basketcase is money best in my pocket and not lost to an immigrant

 

Been banging on this subject for years,never mind eh !   all you do is encourage others to make wrong choices as time will tell  .     Check up on facts  not rubbish spilled out by yourself  lol

 

2 hours ago, fredscats said:

No applause please  Thank You
"In respect of pensions, fraud undermines the value of income for people at a time of life when sources of income become more limited, and the chances of financial recovery are reduced."

Now that is some statement   yes/no?  govt funded investigation,so who exactly is defrauding who?   The fraudee,defrauding the fraudster

 Not been around for a bit,never mind  here now.     I am sure you will agree that money lost by a basketcase is money best in my pocket and not lost to an immigrant

 

Been banging on this subject for years,never mind eh !   all you do is encourage others to make wrong choices as time will tell  .     Check up on facts  not rubbish spilled out by yourself  lol

 

If like you, I was on the fiddle, what would the first thing I wouldn't do if I had half a brain...?

You don't know, I would not post bragging posts on the Internet that I was.

 

Anonymous......????

3 minutes ago, transam said:

If like you, I was on the fiddle, what would the first thing I wouldn't do if I had half a brain...?

You don't know, I would not post bragging posts on the Internet that I was.

 

Anonymous......????

Maybe he will follow that izod10(?) poster into oblivion, although possibly reincarnated as.........ohh, it will come to me in a minute!! Another reincarnation on the cards?

13 minutes ago, dabhand said:

Maybe he will follow that izod10(?) poster into oblivion, although possibly reincarnated as.........ohh, it will come to me in a minute!! Another reincarnation on the cards?

Probably is....????

4 hours ago, transam said:

If like you, I was on the fiddle, what would the first thing I wouldn't do if I had half a brain...?

You don't know, I would not post bragging posts on the Internet that I was.

 

Anonymous......????

I am more than sure you were bombarding the pensions centre a fair while ago of just what you suggest,alas for you , no joy at your revelations ,as nothing was or will be done

 

The activety  you describe,have I admitted anything other than having a pension closer to 200 smackers than 100.? 

 

The more alert would  now be seeing an opportunity of obtaining a PI address far more easily,hence no frozen pension,but not for me to disclose

 

I would say  for you  brainless  ,at cost of 200 smackers at hoax letter writing

 

I would suggest tho,as your source of income diminishes yoy, that geen eyed monster takes on a whole new meaning   LOL

On 3/28/2021 at 8:55 AM, maxcorrigan said:

I was found out 10 months later through i think returned mail from my old address, they were very very nice about the fact i was living in Thailand informing me my pension would be frozen at the time i arrived in Thailand my pension was then reset to that time (there had been one increase by DWP) they did not ask or take back any of the extra money i had received just reset my pension payments, maybe if i been claiming the extra money over a longer period the outcome may have been different, but that was my experience FWIW! 

This is one of a number of past posts describing whatever actions that were undertaken   Can hardly state that that was in any way shape or form sanctionable or punishable

 

Its the dribble forever quoted of that frozen pit  c/w frozen pension

On 9/13/2021 at 8:27 AM, Excel said:

Another reason Boris and Rishak wanted out of the EU as one day the EU will enforce equal pension payments for all member states , quite rightly too in my opinion to ensure fairness, but too late for us in the UK now.

It is a fact that pensions and the health service will some time in the not too distant future, be radically cut back. These are huge bills that governments can't afford.

13 minutes ago, cooked said:

It is a fact that pensions and the health service will some time in the not too distant future, be radically cut back. These are huge bills that governments can't afford.

It is not a fact.  It is an opinion!

16 hours ago, fredscats said:

I am more than sure you were bombarding the pensions centre a fair while ago of just what you suggest,alas for you , no joy at your revelations ,as nothing was or will be done

 

The activety  you describe,have I admitted anything other than having a pension closer to 200 smackers than 100.? 

 

The more alert would  now be seeing an opportunity of obtaining a PI address far more easily,hence no frozen pension,but not for me to disclose

 

I would say  for you  brainless  ,at cost of 200 smackers at hoax letter writing

 

I would suggest tho,as your source of income diminishes yoy, that geen eyed monster takes on a whole new meaning   LOL

I haven't bombarded anyone over pensions, only the odd fiddler that turns up here, and yes, you are back..........????

On 9/13/2021 at 11:50 AM, ivor bigun said:

if you remember they tried this but it was blocked by Tony Blair of the labour party

Well over 600 plus of them are pathetic but nothing new there and pathetic a very kind word

On 9/12/2021 at 8:29 PM, ivor bigun said:

what you think there are pensioners here who have not told the dwp that they live here?

The only reason are the cheaters and liars but do not condone it BUT never hear of any prosecutions??

1 hour ago, transam said:

I haven't bombarded anyone over pensions, only the odd fiddler that turns up here, and yes, you are back..........????

At it again,like a dog with a bone.  Can go back 10 years and the same old story,frozen pit,frozen pensions,...but its how many you succeeded in influencing,hopefully not many, with all the rubbish spouted, and that is all it ever was... rubbish.

 

Cold comfort,each and every one of you,hoping against hope that the guy with bowler hat comes a'knockin',never will,but please keep on ramping up the doom and gloom stuff entertains ,really it does

 

Nobody ever  repeat EVER   has ever been apprehended  living here on frozen pension 'cept their own stupidity,can inc NZ  AU SA too,but please concentrate on TH if that suits