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Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 21st 2016, 11:07 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

From the site:



Then:
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 21st 2016, 10:32 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

But, looking at the gov website:https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension/how-its-calculated, that is implied in the definition of the 'starting amount'.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 21st 2016, 9:49 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

But if he paid SERPS then that might have bought him the extra years. I'm guessing.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 21st 2016, 9:15 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

SERPS?
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 9th 2016, 1:42 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Not the state pension, but a similar scenario:

Mum is aged 90 with Alzheimer's. My brother has enduring power of attorney for her, and sent all of her pension providers a copy of his poa, plus an...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 19th 2016, 10:29 am
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

To which the answer is no.

Personally, I'm not holding any savings in equities, just cash. But, I've done that for some time. Since 2008, I've thought the world financial markets are too unstable...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 14th 2016, 9:37 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

'Uncertainty unwinds' isn't a phrase I'm familiar with. But since the uncertainty about Britain's terms of exit from the EU is going to span at least two more years, and its attempts to form trading...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 14th 2016, 4:55 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

If I understand you correctly, you think May might agree to continue the pension increases for ex-pat retirees in Europe, in return for access to the single market despite ending freedom of movement?...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 14th 2016, 4:30 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Which is another reason the UK gov is unlikely to enter any fresh agreements on pension agreements with the EU countries (I think it would probably be an agreement with the EU as a whole, not...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 14th 2016, 3:38 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

You'd think so, but the depreciation of sterling is even more likely to force the ex-pats to return.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 14th 2016, 3:06 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Every country that British ex-pats are settled in has an interest in negotiating an agreement with the UK on pension increases. The problem for the last 35 years has been that the UK doesn't.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 14th 2016, 2:19 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Pulaski, sometimes I could swear you are being deliberately obtuse.

Whether or not an expat receives the annual increase to their state pension depends on whether the UK has an agreement with the...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 14th 2016, 12:25 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,315
Posted By Editha

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

I don't know why Davita thinks EU countries are 'god-forsaken', but the annual increase depends on EU membership, so it won't continue for much longer.
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