Has anybody received an invitation email from their local council? In the email, you're offered 15 quid in return for testing a new digital service for renewing overseas voter registrations.

I think any participation is voluntary.

Does the email ask for your bank details so they can pay the 15 quid?

Here comes a screenshot of part of the email:

Seems legit https://www.gov.uk/government/news/o...rvice-research
As long as you've checked that the email address is kosher, and I'd get it paid into your PayPal account.

I have received such an invitation which I believed to be genuine. However, having neither a Paypal nor Wise account, I did not submit details. I am surprised that a UK government agency would use either of these services.

How can you live without a Wise account?

Easily! Many of us survive without one

Wise is my only UK bank account. I get my pension paid into it. I dont know of any UK bank account that I can open from Italy.

I have my UK and Swiss state pensions paid directly to my Belgian account. Are you not IR85'd in HMRC-speak?