I am now (sigh...) of a pensionable age, and the UK Pensions office have approved my application.

However I have no UK bank account any more, and I have asked them to pay my pension into my Bangkok Bank foreign currency (pound sterling) account. They rang me today and said this was not possible with direct transfer to Thailand.

Has anyone experience of this? Can they pay into the Bangkok Bank London branch if I make arrangements?

Any advice truly gratefully received.

Dru 2

Plenty of people get their UK State Pension paid into their Thailand bank account at a good rate with no problem.

It gets paid in Baht, so that is probably why they cannot pay into a foreign currency acc.

Ask here and you will get plenty of answers. http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/540525-uk-pensions/

No reply from op.

A bit odd as I gave him the correct answer.

I suspect the problem is asking to be paid in GBP into a GBP account in Thailand, typically they would send in local currency (at very very favourable rates I might add) and you will receive in Thai Baht.

As noted above, the OP will likely get some good advice in the UK Pensions topic. Please visit that thread and your questions will likely be answered.

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