Three things your clients may call you about this week ...

'Frozen pensions'

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A pension boost for British emigrants, the GameStop squeeze and pensioners fleeing the EU - here's your weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

'I was in the RAF and the Government cheated me out of a £70k state pension' Tens of thousands of British pensioners living in Canada have hope they could be in for a state pension boost after "decades of missing out". This article in The Telegraph, as well as looking at the case study of the former RAF man, looks at the situation of the 510,000 British emigrants living abroad who have been denied their state pension in full after it was frozen when they retired or from when they emigrated. In Canada, however, the government has called for a renegotiation of a reciprocal social sec...

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