chilly07 Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Had my meagre frozen pension stopped this month because I have not sent my Life Cert to the DWP! Have responded twice before in previous years at some cost but this time I haven't received anything from the DWP. Tried ringing them but phone always busy. Used their query email and they did email blank forms. Completed them and emailed them back and got a shouty reply accusing me of trying to jump the queue. Have EMSd the forms back but as I have not moved for 10yrs this is clear maladministration! My other pension providers managed to mail me and accepted emailed replies. Particularly galling when UK (and Phillipine and USA expats) have just had their base pension increased to 2000gbp per mth compared to my frozen 800k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackcab Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 19 minutes ago, chilly07 said: ...have just had their base pension increased to 2000gbp per mth Sorry to hear of your difficulties. The full new state pension is now just over £10,600 a year, or £203.85 a week Anyone who reached state pension age before April 2016 gets £8,122 a year, or £156.20 a week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Had my UK pension stopped twice because never received a life form from them. Never had trouble sending a life form back by medium Thai post recorded Air mail. Maybe it got held up because EMS needs a signature and there was no one there to sign it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMuddle Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Got the form three months ago, it took six weeks to reach me, which is ridiculous. Previous longest wait for mail was a month. Sent it back by Thai EMS to be signed for when they get it. Seems as though all OK as I'm still getting my Pension. Only been getting the pension for 18 months. How often do they send these things out? Is it worth pointing out to them I intend to live to be 200 years old, just to spite them ? lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 I have had 4 life forms in 10 years. The y send out by snail mail and because of that they extended the 12 week return to 16 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJAS Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 2 hours ago, MrMuddle said: How often do they send these things out? Every couple of years or so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJAS Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, chilly07 said: but this time I haven't received anything from the DWP IMHO your unfortunate experience serves as a general reminder to us all that it would probably be better to rely on reports of a new Life Certificate exercise on here in order to spur us into taking the necessary action, in preference to awaiting the receipt of a specific request from the IPC. For example, @theoldgit first alerted us all to the latest exercise on 31 January in the pinned Pensions thread - and his posting certainly got the alarm bells ringing in my case! Edited May 26, 2023 by OJAS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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