Anne Puckridge is 99-years-old
She is a World War Two veteran of all three-armed forces: the Army, Navy and RAF. Having both lived and worked in the UK until the age of 76, paying her National Insurance in full, Anne’s pension was ‘frozen’ at £72.50 per week when she left the UK for Canada in 2001 to be closer to her daughter and grandchildren. Her pension doesn’t increase in line with inflation, meaning it effectively falls in real value year-on-year. Had she stayed in the UK, she would be receiving state pension payments worth £169.50 per week.
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Anne is sadly not alone, but one of around 453,000 British pensioners in similar positions, receiving a fraction of the state pension they would otherwise receive had they remained in the UK. Most are based in Commonwealth countries like Canada and Australia, whilst other British pensioners residing in the USA, Philippines, or any country in the EU, receive the same yearly increases as in the UK.
453,000
Frozen
Pensioners
49%
of Frozen Pensioners receive £65 per week or less
86%
were not told that their pension would be frozen
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