Question follow-through · 13057

State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support British pensioners residing overseas.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 6 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 11 Nov 2024
Answer: 12 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

6 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support British pensioners residing overseas.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, based on a person’s National Insurance record, and are only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries with which we have a reciprocal agreement that provides for up-rating...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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