I had a Thai girlfriend once who believed UK men were all rich, and it wasn’t until I showed her a graph of where we rate with national earnings compared to the rest of Europe including pension entitlement, that she went off me rather quickly. I believe she now lives in Switzerland married to a Banker!

Yet changes from Whitehall have engineered it so Brit men are even less handsome now. Well they used to be desirable to young slim South East Asian woman, because being married to a chap of pensionable age, who had worked all his life in UK, and paid a stamp (a payment towards his pension) to the government out of his wages each week, meant it would not be that long till her hubby mysteriously falls in the contaminated fish lake near the farm, developed an incurable disease and got his angel wings, and the moneys hers!

http://biz-findphilippines.com/uk-expat-pensioners-last-laugh/

I believe that report is incorrect (although I am prepared to stand corrected).

The intention was indeed for Bereavements Benefits to be ONLY payable in the UK wef 6 April 2016.

However, to the best of my knowledge those changes have not yet been implemented and several agencies believe it will now be 6 April 2017.

I would be pleasantly surprised if the OP can read a graph, let alone this Thai girlfriend of hers who has since found a Swiss Banker to take care of her financial needs.