Why is my UK State Pension not increasing and in other countries it does??

Why it is that the UK State Pension doesn’t increase for those that move to certain countries and for others it does?

As a reminder the basis of this is that if you move to live in another country then you will receive the UK State Pension entitlement that you have built up, whether that’s 10 or 35 qualifying years or the old basic State Pension. So that bit is good and nice, however the sticking point here is that there are only certain countries where if you live you get the increase. The list of countries where you would receive the increase is the EEA countries and Switzerland.

Then there are the countries that the UK has a social security agreement with. Meaning an agreement that is meant to protect the social security rights of individuals moving between countries. Also known as bilateral or reciprocal agreements, which to be fair is nice, imagine you have been working in the UK then you move to Canada but you end up in a position requiring social security, then in that case, it is available to you. The list of countries with an agreement in place can be found on the gov.uk website, link down below.

📘References:

House of Commons Library, Frozen Overseas Pensions, Feb 21
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/...

Gov.uk list of countries where pensions are uprated:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publica...

CBC Article
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/uk-b...

Further Links & Information sent to me (since making this video):
https://bpia.org.au/
https://britishpensions.com/
https://pensionjustice.org/

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