Spotted by Physiocrat on gov.uk:
Will UK nationals continue to get their State Pension uprated under no deal?
The UK leaving the EU will not affect entitlement to continue receiving the UK State Pension if you live in the EU, and we are committed to uprate across the EU in 2019 to 2020. We would wish to continue uprating pensions beyond that but would take decisions in light of whether, as we would hope and expect, reciprocal arrangements with the EU are in place.
Physiocrat (himself an expat pensioners)) adds:
My father emigrated to Australia to be with relatives and was swindled by the UK Government due to the non-uprating of pensions.
It seems as if the UK government is about to play the same dirty trick again. This is just using Brexit as an excuse. If the Spanish government decides not to uprate its citizens pensions living in the UK, why should the UK government punish UK citizens living in Spain by refusing to uprate theirs?
What is the connection? I understand that Norway has a reciprocal arrangement, but then the numbers involved as so small as to be insignificant.
Like so much that has been said about Brexit, it is a strange logic. The British pension is a contributions-based entitlement. What business is it of the government to restrict it if people choose not to live in the UK?
I smell foul play in the offing. A stink needs to be made.
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