A group of expat pensioners will take their case demanding the unfreezing of their pension income by the UK Government to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The Grand Chamber of the ECHR will hear the discrimination case brought by 13 British expat pensioners against the UK on 2 September, according to the International Consortium of British Pensioners (ICPB). The UK currently refuses to apply annual 'up-rates' to state pensions of the 13 applicants because of where they have retired. Expat pensioners in Canada, Australia and South Africa amongst others are not eligible for uprates unlike individuals retired in the USA who are awarded the same annual upratings as those still resident in the UK. The ICPB estimates approximately half of all...
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