Expats pension battle to resume Feb 2005 - papers 7th June

Having battled for some time already and once lost a test case, pensioners who left the UK and moved to places such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa are looking to see whether an appeal can overturn a decision which leaves thousands of people receiving a state pension of less than £10 a week, rather than a retail price index-linked State pension in the UK. Annette Carson, who has been living in South Africa since 1989, is still leading the battling the Department for Work and Pensions in the courts as she believes the UK law discriminates against older people living abr...