Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Neil Gray (Scottish National Party), on Wednesday, 13 May 2020, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 24 members in total.

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UK Veterans and frozen pensions

That this House notes the publication of Broken Faith, Britain’s Forgotten Heroes by the Campaign to End Frozen Pensions, which highlights the continuing injustice of the UK frozen pensions policy which affects over 500,000 UK state pensioners, including an estimated 100,000 military veterans, living in countries that do not have a reciprocal state pension uprating agreement with the UK, a policy which results in the affected pensioners having their UK state pension frozen at the level it was in the year that they start to claim it overseas, meaning that many of these pensioners are living on as little as £40 a week due to being denied annual uprating as would happen if they had remained in the UK; and calls on the Government to end this injustice and to uprate the UK state pensions of all UK state pensioners in line with the triple lock, regardless of where they live.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

476 

Session

2019-21

Other sponsors

Caroline Lucas

Sammy Wilson

Andrew Gwynne

Neil Coyle

Jamie Stone

Subjects

State retirement pensions Veterans

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk